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Avoid common business-continuity planning pitfalls
The trouble with establishing a business continuity program is that you just don't know what might disrupt your business down the road. You could be perfectly prepared to withstand earthquakes, fires and tornadoes, but then the levies might collapse and take everyone by surprise.
Are business continuity software packages really necessary?
Do the advantages of business continuity software packages outweigh the hassle and time it takes to load data into them and complete a deployment? Stieven Weidner, senior manager at consulting firm
Network outages cost U.S. businesses $1.7 billion in 2010
More than 25 percent of enterprise IT systems were hit by outages of four hours or longer last year, resulting in losses amounting to $1.7 billion dollars last year. The survey was conducted by IT
The day after a Google cloud crash
The Gmail outage that began over last weekend and took multiple days to resolve has understandably shaken the confidence of many users who might have lived under the mistaken assumption that
Where Hurricane Earl may hit IT
Hurricane Earl may present a blustery challenge for some IT systems, but the most likely casualties will be teleworkers, not data centers, analysts predict. Backup facilities and generators tend to
Making the business case for telework
The increasingly mobile and dispersed workforce of 2010 requires communications tools that are much different from those enabled by traditional enterprise systems. The marketplace of technologies
Protect your system with archiving software
There's a growing demand for archiving software among CIOs who want to protect their systems from incidents involving disaster recovery and business continuity, according to market research firm IDC,
Data center challenges
There are five major issues IT managers must consider to ensure smooth data center operations in 2007: regulatory compliance, disaster recovery/business continuity, power, cooling, and IT as a
Disaster recovery: Satisfying both sides
Often, IT leaders and business leaders are at odds on the importance of business continuity and disaster recovery technology. That's partially because IT managers think that their job is to make
Survey: Execs, IT managers don't always agree
According to a survey of 176 corporate executives and 351 IT managers by Harris Interactive for SunGard Data Systems, most IT managers consider disaster recovery and business continuity important
