In terms of natural disasters for 2012, the “big one” for many people was Hurricane Sandy. The storm affected individuals and enterprises as it knocked out power lines and punished buildings, roads and infrastructure on the US East Coast. After the fact analyses of the hurricane took different standpoints. Some praised the decisions taken by…
Health organisations are a special case (not the only one) in business continuity management. Life and death issues are the backdrop in many cases, while the size and complexity of some hospitals elevate BCM to new levels of complexity. At the same time, they need to generate income in order to pay the ongoing costs…
Why should DR stand only for disaster recovery? In the face of the earthquakes that assail parts of New Zealand from time to time, both the short term and the long term implications are being taken into account. Short term is disaster recovery, in a wider context than just IT, but disaster recovery nonetheless to…
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,…