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...
One reason that recovery times can be long is that most companies still rely on tape back-up systems as the primary means to resume operations, said Stephen Higgins, EMC's director of business continuity marketing.
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...
The London terrorist bombings on 7 July have led to an increase in the number of businesses reviewing, testing and in some cases beefing up their disaster recovery and business continuity plans. Although expensive, disaster recovery plans are...
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...
CIOs are being put in charge of business continuity and disaster recovery strategies, even though there should be a broader response to the issue, a panel of experts has warned. Business continuity and disaster recovery are seen as an IT...