The more business continuity test scenarios you can run in your IT systems, the closer you can get to a bullet-proof organisation. Of course, that doesn’t mean that you’ll necessarily achieve such a Holy Grail; it might just mean you’ll be a little less further away than when you started. And then there’s all that…
Disaster recovery via cloud computing is a hot topic nowadays. Inexpensive compared to traditional hot standby solutions and with greater flexibility, by definition cloud data backup is independent of local or even regional incidents. In theory, cloud data restore should be just as independent. The problem however comes when a cloud provider fails to provide…
Should you stay or should you go? That’s the big question in thinking out preparedness and plans for disaster recovery and business continuity in the event of a bush fire. In Australia, the damage done in 2009 in Victoria sparked off new debates about the right choice between staying to defend property against bush fires,…
Embedding business continuity management in an organisation certainly gets a mention in standards like BS25999 (with good intentions carrying through to ISO 22301). So it should. As BCM concerns everyone and is only as strong as its weakest link, it needs to be understood and applied by all: hence the embedding into the organisational culture.…
Despite some claims that that data storage and data recovery are set to become two separate items in computing cloud land, at the moment it’s all in there together: data, the applications that handle that data and the infrastructure that needs to be managed in consequence. IT disaster recovery plans involving cloud now have to…
AS/NZS5050, with its title of “Business continuity – Managing disruption-related risk”, caused a few ripples when it was published in 2010. With its focus on risk management, it recommends that disruption should be stabilised as soon as possible, with resumption of mission-critical operations and a speedy return to normal functioning. It also recommends that a…