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Selling the C-suite on preemptive IT investments

CIO Business Intelligence

It’s common knowledge among CIOs that disaster recovery investments are always de-prioritized by company boards — until disaster strikes. But disaster recovery is just one example of projects that are of an important and preemptive nature that CIOs want to fund but find de-prioritized when it comes to budget approval.

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Does your Disaster Recovery Plan Include the Cloud?

Eric D. Brown

In years past, companies have relied on multiple data center locations to act as their main disaster recovery (DR) systems and data in case of disaster. This has generally worked well for those companies that have planned and tested their DR systems and plans appropriately.

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Is Your Business Prepared to Recover from a Cyber Event?

CIO Business Intelligence

You’ve done everything a smart and responsible organization needs to do to safeguard your systems, networks, data, and other assets from cyber threats. The question is: are you prepared to recover from a cyber event? Swift recovery is paramount to minimizing damage. The longer it takes to recover, the more it will cost.

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What is the Difference Between Business Continuity & Disaster Recovery?

Galido

Information Technology Blog - - What is the Difference Between Business Continuity & Disaster Recovery? Almost everyone now is thinking about measures to mitigate disaster and to recover from the effects. Many companies require policies to keep operating even in the aftermath of nature’s wrath.

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Expanding the Cloud: Enabling Globally Distributed Applications and Disaster Recovery

All Things Distributed

About 5 years ago, I introduced you to AWS Availability Zones, which are distinct locations within a Region that are engineered to be insulated from failures in other Availability Zones and provide inexpensive, low latency network connectivity to other Availability Zones in the same region.

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How to create an effective business continuity plan

CIO Business Intelligence

The tumultuous events of the past several years have impacted practically every business. And with the number of extreme weather events, cyberattacks, and geopolitical conflicts continuing to rise, business leaders are bracing for the possibility of increasingly more frequent impactful incidents their organizations will need to respond to.

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The Increasing Demand for Telecoms During a Pandemic

Spearline Testing

Spearline monitors critical business telecommunications services on a global level, which is why Palmer said the organization is uniquely positioned to present data that highlights how the pandemic made business communications companies faster at making adjustments. ” Data from 2020, however, paints another picture.