Yet 80 per cent said they had experienced unplanned downtime in the past year, with over a quarter suffering downtime on a quarterly basis or more. In order to make the right business decisions about where budgets are allocated, what level of risk...
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.
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...
As such, the bank must have processes in place ahead of such an event to mitigate the threat. Communications lines are also critical, he said: "If we can't communicate with one another then we can't mitigate the problem.
Ken Davis, IT director at TV channel Five, said: "There are IT-related risks of course but even in an operation which is totally dependant on IT other, more strategic business, competitive and regulatory risks are seen as greater and much more...
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...