Once the data is organised, it is quicker to recover it. Make sure you backup directories, catalogues, not just data. Run similarly designed backup and storage environments, so that incompatibility issues won't disturb data recovery.
However, worst case scenarios - such as terrorist attacks, city-wide black-outs and natural disasters, which have all struck businesses in the past few years, have all highlighted the need for robust business continuity - even if such concerns are...
Do test-disasters and make sure you can recover. I always tell my new IT managers that one of the most important aspects of their jobs is ensuring a reliable backup. Not testing your backup solution Some of these errors have even been serious...
While this could mean delaying the company's own recovery efforts for a few days or a week, keep in mind that all disasters require some sort of triage. As Southeast Asia struggled to recover from the devastation wrought by the tragic tsunami in...
BT has suffered a series of software glitches that have made it harder for other telecoms operators to take control of its telephone lines and offer innovative broadband services. These problems occurred in new systems that should automate local...
The FSA said those businesses who represent the core of the UK's financial system have "highly resilient" IT systems and that they could recover critical functions rapidly following major operational disruption but warned there are several areas...