Less than 8 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. But Ben Allen, general manager of Ontrack Data Recovery, warned that when dealing with mission critical...
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...
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...
The exercise is part of the FSA and government's plans to increase the resilience and disaster recovery capability of the UK's key financial markets in the event of "major operational disruption". The FSA said it plans to hold further exercises on...
Both BT and PricewaterhouseCoopers confirmed they have continuity plans in place with data back-up systems so they could continue to function in the event of a major disaster. Many large multinationals will be scrambling to put continuity plans...
US disaster recovery firm Legato is to purchase privately-held NT data specialist OTG for $403m. The deal will firm up Legato's portfolio of disaster recovery products, particularly in the Windows space.