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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...