A spokesman for the Financial Times said: "We suffered a power cut early this morning. When the servers were restored it was found that they couldn't read some URLs - those starting with www. Most attempts to go to news.ft.com are successful.
When a problem occurs, it is important to be able to recover from it as soon as possible. Failure of a physical environment, e.g.through fire or through failure of critical networking component. However, it should be even more important to ensure...
Disaster recovery is still being left to chance by many businesses despite the threat of outages that range from straightforward software or hardware failure to terrorist attacks, power supply problems and virus outbreaks, according to analyst...
TNS Business Services carried out the latest business continuity research but separate findings from Meta Group have broken down the cost of not planning business continuity - in other words, how much downtime costs - by sector.
IT and telecoms systems were responsible for almost half of UK business outages in the past year, according to a disaster recovery survey of Chartered Management Institute (CMI) members. IT remains critical to the running of most businesses today...
Tom Howard, chief technical director at co-location and managed services company Qube, said: "Whether it's a problem with public transport or occasional central London power outages, UK companies are not investing seriously enough to avoid a...