Ideally, business continuity plan best practice revolves around identifying the key risks and how to handle them, and separating out risks that do not justify planning time and effort, because they are too small or too improbable. The problem is to decide whether or not a risk merits inclusion in the BC plan. The current…
Cloud computing, that recent IT evolution, has been hailed as a boon to business continuity plans. Indeed, it has a lot to offer, including IT network redundancy, reduced costs and flexible billing. For these reasons, it immediately scores over traditional hot or cold mirrored data centres with more substantial initial and ongoing costs. Naturally, adequate…
A business case for business continuity is not just about additional benefits that BC might bring to an organisation. In some cases, the need to ensure that an enterprise can “take a lickin’ and still keep on tickin’ “ means other advances in operational theory and practice need to be given up. A case in…
Necessity as they say is the mother of invention. Business continuity planning sometimes needs some outside-the-box invention, especially in the case where a major functional component of an organisation becomes unavailable. This has been the case for a museum (Le Museon Arlaten) in the south of France, founded in 1899 with the mission of conserving…
Stay away from London during the Olympics. That was the message that many people understood from the business continuity planning warnings issued about the difficulty of getting to, and moving around in, London, while the 2012 Olympic Games were being held. Companies were told that their employees might face effective denial of access to their…
Companies today are often so focused on the secure storage of data that they miss the point about which data is really worth storing. A recent article by a Storage Networking Industry Association member made the point that “stale data backup” afflicts many organisations. It’s a problem that is as much cultural as technological. In…