Maximum tolerable outage means what it says – the longest time that an organisation can accept that a given service or facility is out of operation. Many enterprises and institutions go to great lengths to predict and calculate MTO, usually because of what’s at stake. Hospitals for example cannot accept IT outages that disrupt critical…
Ray Bradbury was the author of many works of science fiction and futurism. SF literature owes to him classics such as The Martian Chronicles, Something Wicked This Way Comes and Fahrenheit 451. Although monsters from outer space do not feature in the top ten risks that organisations must face, the title alone of Fahrenheit 451…
Some of the most effective selling in any context is done by systematically applying certain rules. Selling the business case of business continuity is no exception. Finding out what internal decision-makers want and presenting the case for BC so that it demonstrates value in their eyes, while motivating them to accept sooner rather than later,…
With the end of the year looming larger and larger, it’s time for a review of trends that have marked BC in 2012 so far, and that will likely continue to do so into the next year. Four important ones are rooted in information technology: cloud computing, mobile devices in the workforce, social networking and…
There’s no doubt about it. Governments think up the strangest codenames for their secret activities. The innocent sounding Operation Teapot referred to a series of tests by the US Federal Civil Defense Administration to find out what impact a nuclear explosion would have on towns and infrastructures. Part of that impact involved business records and…
Every so often discussions arise outside the domain of disaster recovery plans, but that trigger thought-provoking questions. One recent example was about the extent to which backup tapes destined for DR were accessible or not for legal information discovery. This is the procedure whereby the databases of an organisation can be searched by the opposite…