To be successful and effective, Business Continuity Planning must be an organization-wide activity. It involves the collaboration of all business functions and all departments. So why is it so darn hard to engage an Information Technology [...]
Visit any company today and you are likely to find business and IT managers confronting the same challenges. Call them the “C-4” issues: cost-containment, compliance, continuity and carbon footprint reduction (reduced IT energy consumption, also [...]
Among the priorities for efficient storage management is an appropriate protection architecture. We all know how important it is to protect the crown jewels of any business, the data. The question is, do we protect [...]
An NBA All-Star Game helps us appreciate the exceptional performance that is possible when you get the “best-of-the-best” all working together in a seamless and coordinated fashion. Wouldn’t it be great to do the same [...]
The day-to-day life of a Chief Information Security Officer (aka CISO), a Business Continuity Director or a security/disaster recovery professional is definitely one full of excitement, boredom, concern, wonder and even sheer terror! The issues [...]
For the past 18 to 24 months, a new focused conversation has emerged among CIO's and IT Directors regarding the trend of internalizing recovery efforts within their organizations. As organizations look to streamline operations, implement [...]
Many enlightened enterprises are aligning the once disparate functions of Disaster Recovery, Business Continuity and Information Security into a single functional unit focused on IT Risk Management. Some organizations have gone even further and added [...]
Disruptive events don't have to be a major disaster to wipe out your business. They can be anything from a relatively minor malfunctioning network card to a devastating event such as a sudden regional disaster [...]
In a perfect world, companies would have everything they need to get back up and running after a disaster, regardless of cost. A backhoe cuts the fiber line in front of your office? No problem. [...]
Here are some key areas where planners need to be concerned with private and personally identifiable information when creating, updating, and testing disaster recovery plans. Businesses possess a staggering amount of private and personally identifiable [...]
As data and applications have become critical to an organization's ability to operate, companies have invested heavily to protect these assets. One technology designed to protect both data and applications is replication. However, despite millions [...]
In case you haven't noticed, these trends have breathed life into coping strategies built around multitiered data storage architectures. That is to say, many companies are beginning to leverage inexpensive disk arrays based on Serial-ATA [...]