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. Guardian IT's Bean added that it is possible some New York-based...
Being reactive may have worked at Highbury but not any more," said Farmer, who employs CA's management software widely across the network to this end, as well as the US software giant's Mail Manager and XOSoft services for email archiving and...
As the crisis unfolded, a computer program that should have set alarms off in FirstEnergy's control room failed. Consequently the computer system itself failed and then the back-up/disaster recovery system failed.
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...
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...
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...