Only 53 per cent of UK companies have business continuity plans in place. It never has been and - despite the hype, the hacks, the viruses and certain terrorist-led disasters proving the need for business continuity - it looks like it never will be.
Just three per cent of IT managers claim their business continuity strategies have been affected by the events of 11 September. With the anniversary of the terrorist attacks fast approaching (and the number of security companies using it as a PR...
Dell is honing its focus on business continuity, seeing the area as a key way to increase upgrade cycles, especially in areas such as storage. The direct vendor recently commissioned research which found 37 per cent of respondents do not plan for...
VMware and several business partners have begun an initiative called the Virtual Desktop Infrastructure Alliance to try to replace individual PCs with virtual machines on a much smaller number of servers.
Virtualisation is now involved in the most trendy fields in the industry including data centre automation, utility computing, green computing, security, business continuity, blades, grid and SOA. While the term virtualisation has been around since...
Customers across the region are running core business applications, test and development and business continuity systems on virtual infrastructure. One of the sponsors of the research was virtualisation-software supplier VMware.