This group of people will be our business continuity (BC) team. We then will need to have our disaster recovery (DR) team, whose remit is to pick up the pieces when the BC Team has failed. When this happens, we should not have the BC team in charge...
We had expected to see it end up with one of the major players - the other likely contenders were HP and EDS, or BC specialist SunGard - so the news comes as no great surprise. Schlumberger BC will complement and expand IBM's existing global BC...
Many of the financial centres.have been affected and their business continuity has come under pressure. In addition to the general chaos that surrounds natural disasters, Sonal said some companies have failed to prepare for flood scenarios and this...
He cited Gartner's recommendation that 3.5 per cent of the IT budget in financial services should be dedicated to security alone - excluding disaster recovery and business continuity planning. IT executives must convey to management that issues...
Fifty-six per cent of enterprises said upgrading their security environment, business continuity (BC) and disaster recovery (DR) systems are top priorities. In contrast, SMEs have slightly different priorities - with purchasing of new hardware...
Other top concerns for CIOs over the next 12 months are major business programmes, business continuity and disaster recovery. Nearly two-thirds (65 per cent) of internal audit chiefs surveyed by business consultancy Ernst & Young, don't regard data...