Primary Metrics For Disaster Recovery And Business Continuity
Metrics are what you use to measure things. It sounds obvious. What’s not so obvious is why figure-driven metrics seem so often to be channelled off towards disaster recovery and IT in particular, whereas other high-level metrics end up with business continuity. Sure, there are the historical IT roots of disaster recovery to be considered […]
Morphing DR Plans Into BC plans
Disaster recovery plans are like car insurance. It’s not because you’ve insured your car that you’re obliged to have an accident; similarly, it’s not because you have a great disaster recovery plan, that you’re obliged to have a disaster. Although reactive disaster recovery will always be a counterpart to proactive business continuity, better driving will […]
The Danger Of Disaster Recovery Overkill
In theory, disaster recovery like its counterpart business continuity needs to concentrate on what is critical in an organisation to keep it functioning correctly, and concentrate on planning for and managing those aspects. Experience plays a large part in understanding how far to go, and having broad knowledge gained by working in or with the […]
Webinar: Disaster Recovery Planning & Testing – The Real Cost of Downtime
Novell is hosting a complimentary Webinar on the Real Cost of Downtime on January 19, 2011 (or Thu, Jan 20, 2011 6:00 AM – 7:00 AM AEDT if you’re in Australia). The main topics to be covered are: – Traditional disaster recovery challenges, particularly when it comes to testing and recovery planning – Best practices […]
Webinar: Disaster Recovery Planning & Testing – The Real Cost of Downtime
Novell is hosting a complimentary Webinar on the Real Cost of Downtime on January 19, 2011 (or Thu, Jan 20, 2011 6:00 AM – 7:00 AM AEDT if you’re in Australia). The main topics to be covered are: – Traditional disaster recovery challenges, particularly when it comes to testing and recovery planning – Best practices […]
Don't have time for Business Continuity Management? Then why not outsource it!
Ensuring continuity of your business functions, processes and critical IT systems and applications, along with the decision making in a time of crisis cannot be completely outsourced; there will always be responsibilities owned by the board, executive team and operational staff members. However, a great deal of the co-ordination and maintenance can be outsourced for […]