In theory, IT should be a boon for business continuity. Speed, reliability, automation, efficiency, productivity, all these things are positive effects available by moving to a digital environment driven by information technology.
Sometimes, IT can teach business a thing or two. In a recent survey on private cloud computing use, there was a statistic on the use of multipathing.
Current press coverage may be focusing on exaflops and artificial intelligence, but the IT success story of the decade is still likely to be cloud computing as Cloud Business Continuity struggles to bring much progress.
Corporate policies on anything from safety to ethical sourcing are all about rules. Do this; don’t do that! Often created from the experience of everything that went wrong in the past, policies can soon turn into large, unwieldy documents. IT security also has its rules, some of them born of common sense, others of past…
Here’s the quick version. Hackers operating in the same cloud server hardware as you can steal your encryption keys and run off with your data/bank codes/customers/company (strike out items that do not apply – if any). Yes, behind that mouthful of a title is a scary prospect indeed. Until recently, this kind of cloud-side hacking…
As cloud computing develops and providers multiply their data centres, physical location of data has become an important issue for many organisations. Their goal has often been to prevent storage of confidential data outside their national boundaries. The risk of a data breach is considered to be too great, especially in the wake of the…