Sometimes you have to be pragmatic. While it would be great to have the business case for business continuity generally agreed in an organisation, it’s not always that simple. So if there’s an opportunity for business continuity to get into a business on the coattails of some other project, it may merit consideration.
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Posts Tagged ‘Virtualisation’
Getting BC In Through The Virtualisation Back Door
Tuesday, December 27th, 2011Virtualisation and Disaster Recovery
Wednesday, October 19th, 2011Virtualisation may not have all the answers when it comes to disaster recovery, but it can do things that basic tape or online back-ups cannot. It makes it easier to accomplish the three mandatory parts of a successful recovery: restoration of the data, the application using the data and the operating system required to make the application work. Tape or online back-ups may give you your data back, but if the servers have gone, then applications need to be installed all over again – and so do the operating systems with their passwords, permissions and configuration specific to the company concerned. (more…)
Webinar: Disaster Recovery Planning & Testing – The Real Cost of Downtime
Wednesday, January 5th, 2011Novell 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 for reducing disruption and improving coordination and communication
- How virtualisation is a potential game changer in increasing the level of trust businesses have in disaster recovery plans
Register to participate here.
Latest Global Disaster Recovery research just released by Symantec
Friday, October 30th, 2009Symantec Corp have now released their annual Global Disaster Recovery Survey. Surveying 1,650 companies worldwide in June 2009, the target audience was CIO and CTO Executives within companies that had 5,000 or more staff.
The survey assesses many aspects of disaster recovery, including Cost of Downtime, Planned Budgets, Impacts of DR Testing and Virtualisation Trends.
The report can be found here: http://www.symantec.com/about/news/resources/press_kits/detail.jsp?pkid=disasterrecovery