Seagate Sofware is the latest storage vendor to put its weight behind the 'Prove it' initiative designed to increase awareness of disaster recovery among business executives. Its aim is to educate businesses of all sizes about how to set up the...
However, many companies are still stuck with the notion of "disaster recovery" - how to get back on line rapidly when the proverbial does hit the fan. Quocirca research director Clive Longbottom explains the key to how business continuity and...
Schlumberger, newly bereft of its IT services wing Sema, looks like it could be shedding more of its tech divisions - with disaster recovery number one for the chop. Schlumberger's disaster recovery business is a hangover from its acquisition of...
28.04.99: Less than eight per cent of companies will turn to a disaster-recovery unit at the time of a crisis, according to an Ontrack survey of 8,000 users. Disaster recovery is still not being treated with the priority it should be by firms in...
Firms have been warned there is a "significant geographical concentration" of critical business functions and back-up sites in and around London that could be affected by a major incident and the FSA also expressed concern at the "high degree of...
Anybody broaching the subject of disaster recovery treads a very thin line between common sense and poor taste. There are companies out there who exist solely to service the disaster recovery and business continuity market and so it goes without...