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Sophos - Security Threat Report - 2011
Identifying the threats: where to watch. 95,000—that’s the number of malware pieces analyzed by SophosLabs every day in 2010, nearly doubling the number of malware pieces that were tracked in 2009. This accounts for one unique file every 0.9 seconds, 24 hours per day, each day of the year. It’s a clear sign that the malware threat continues to grow at an alarming rate.
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ESG - Practical Advice for Streamlining BC/DR Solutions - January 2011
This paper highlights the challenges and 'practical advice' for streamlining a BC/DR environment. It further explores how solutions from Riverbed Technologies can help accelerate a more effective and optimised BC/DR environment and enable organisations to remain competitive in a highly dynamic, global market. Bob Laliberte reports.
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VMWare Disaster Recovery
Publiched By: VMWare
Making your business Disaster Ready with Virtual Infrastrucutre.
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The Global CFO Study 2008
Published By: IBM Global Business Services
Balancing Risk and Performance with an Integrated Finance Organization.
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Comdisco Call Centre Continuity
Published By: Comdisco
Hello, Is Anyone There? Ensuring Availability of Call Centre Operations.
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Article - IT Disaster Recovery Technologies
Published By: OpsCentre
Darrin Gay, a Principal Consultant with OpsCentre , provides an overview of the various technologies and tools available in the marketplace to support IT Disaster Recovery.

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F5 Networks - F.y.i. F5
New technologies for Disaster Recovery/Business Continuity. 2008
IT managers today must be ready for the unexpected, especially in consideration of new industry and government rules concerning data protection and disaster recovery. Disaster recovery initiatives, of course, have been around for some time; however, it is only recently that several new technologies have emerged that are changing the way we think about disaster recovery and business continuity planning.
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DR Solutons from VMWare
Published By: VMWare
Transforming Disaster Recovery - VMWare infrasatructure for Rapid, Reliable and Cost Effective Disaster Reocvery

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Virtual Disaster Recovery : Disaster Recovery Planning for VMWare Virtualised Environments
Published By: Raymond Lucchesi, Silverton Consulting Inc, USA
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Disaster Recovery and Virtualisation - Advanced Data Protection Methodologies
Published By: Chris Wolf, Burton Group
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X86 Server Virtualisation for High Availability and Disaster Recovery for IT Infrastructure & Operations Professionals
Published By: Stephanie Balaouras and Christopher Voce, Forrester
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Virtualisation Concepts in Disaster Recovery
Published By: SearchServerVirtualization.com

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Disaster Recovery Solutions from VMWare
Published By: VMWare
Transforming Disaster Recovery - VMware Infrastructure for Rapid, Reliable and Cost-Effective Disaster Recovery

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Making your business disaster ready with virtual infrastructure
Published By: VMWare
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Disaster Strikes! Is Your Business Ready? Disaster Preparedness
for Mid-Sized Firms
Published By: Yankee Group, sponsored by VMWare

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VMWare disaster recovery starter kit
Published By: VMWare
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The benefits of virtualisation for your Disaster Recovery Plan
Published By: SearchServerVirtualization.com
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Improving disaster recovery with virtualisation
Published By: VMWare
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Improving business continuity with virtualisation
Published By: VMWare
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The ten most forgotten things when building a disaster recovery plan
Published By: VMWare
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VMWare Infrasturture Adoption Trends
Published By: VMWare
Customer Research Findings, July-August 2008

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High Availability - Three Part Series
Published By: Computer Associates
Part 1 - The Intersection of High Availability and Business Continuity
Part 2 - Pushbutton Recovery
Part 3 - Realitime Testing

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Bare Metal Disaster Recovery
Published By: Ultrabac Software
Filling the Gap in Backup Protection

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The Essential Guide to Testing your Disaster Recovery Ability
Published By: Windows IT Pro in conjunction with XOsoft
Forget the Prayers, Go with the Proof
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Next Generation Backup-to-Disk
Published By: EMC
Building foundations for Effective Operational Recovery Management

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Riding the Storm
Published By: AT&T & Cisco Systems with The Economist Intelligence Unit
Disasters regularly force companies to suspend key business operations, yet many company executives are still doing too little to prepare their companies for the eventuality. A new survey by the Economist Intelligence Unit on behalf of AT&T and Cisco shows widespread neglect of business continuity planning – despite the fact that senior management can now be held liable for any losses that could reasonably be avoided. Failure to put in place well considered business continuity plans aimed at preventing or at least mitigating losses could be very costly in terms of profitability, reputation and market value.

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Disaster Recovery Issues and Solutions
Published By: Hitachi Data Systems
This paper considers technological approaches to meeting disaster recovery needs, and emerging configuration alternatives and technologies that provide cost-effective solutions for disaster recovery and business resilience.

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The Business Case for Disaster Recovery Planning:Calculating the Cost of Downtime
Published By: Iron Mountain
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The Email Management Crisis; New Research on Seven Critical Email Management Problems
Published By: Iron Mountain
Iron Mountain along with MessageOne, an Iron Mountain partner, commissioned this research report to understand the growth, complexity, and importance of email archiving systems for organizations. This research shows that companies face issues at every level including the volume, content, management, storage, security, and retrieval of emails. On a broader scope, organizations must address compliance requirements, legal and eDiscovery needs, business continuity and employee productivity, storage demands and costs, and regulatory mandates. This report explores the requirements of an effective email archive system and suggests integral components of a solution.

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Three Principles of Business Continuity
Published By: Moonwalk
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Crisis Response System : An Innovative Solution for Protecting Your People and Critical Infrastructure
Published By: Remedy/BMC
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When the lights are on, but nobody's home - strategies for promoting workforce continuity
Published By:Varolii
Promoting Workforce Continuity and Organizational Resilience Through a Blend of Inbound and Outbound Communications Strategies
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The seven steps to successful business continuity communications
Published By:Varolii
Traditional methods of notifying people during a crisis, such as manual call trees and basic alerting systems, are no longer adequate for supporting increasingly vulnerable organizations. Broadening the scope of business continuity, organizations are taking measures to implement reliable, flexible, inbound and outbound communications, aimed at connecting and protecting both their infrastructure and people.
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Are You Incident Ready?
Published By:Jim Mitchell, eBRP Solutions Inc
You have Plans, Your Call Trees are updated, you have a Crisis Management Team in place – and an EOC to house them, you’ve run tabletop tests and made sure every Plan is up-to-date, your auditors are happy, Senior Management is happy. But are you really Incident READY?

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Crisis Management Strategies
Published By:Corporate Leadership Council
This study examines the crisis management planning process. It describes the structure of emergency planning groups across profiled companies and the mechanisms for formulating, refining, and communicating emergency plans. In addition, this brief describes strategies for helping employees cope with difficult times, as well as physical preparations that companies undergo to become crisis-ready.

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Using Business Continuity to Ensure Uninterrupted Operations
Published By:Bakbone
Organizations know that they need a well thought out business continuity plan to help them overcome unexpected events. However, many confuse disaster recovery with business continuity and fail to invest time and funding in areas beyond technology. This white paper will help organizations develop and execute a comprehensive business continuity strategy that includes a better understanding of the role of technology in the strategy. Following these critical steps will help organizations become better prepared for any type of disruption to their operations.
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Evaluating a Business Continuity Solution : Ten Factors to Consider Before Buying
Published By:ASEMPRA
This white paper describes ten parameters against which solutions should be assessed when evaluating applicationaware, real-time continuous data protection technologies for Windows environments. The following sections focus on the metrics necessary to evaluate and objectively measure business continuity solutions.

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Message Maps: Blueprints for Pandemic Preparedness
Published By:3n
Successfully managing major business interruptions, such as a pandemic flu outbreak, requires creating a comprehensive communication plan. The major component of effective pandemic communication is message mapping, a process of creating prepared messages that can be used in disaster or pandemic-related situations. This paper examines the role of message mapping and the Chandler Message Mapping process in disaster preparedness, especially as it relates to pandemic flu.
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Continuing the Journey - the 2005 Business Continuity Survey
Published By:Deloitte & CPM
The Deloitte & Touche/CPM 2005 Business Continuity Survey finds that investment in Business Continuity Management (BCM) has been elevated and extended to the enterprise level. Just six years ago, only 30% of respondents had corporate business continuity plans, including those addressing crisis management. Now, more than 83% have formal business continuity plans, and 56% have crisis management plans that have been tested. These survey results confirm that proactive Crisis Management Planning has now become a core requirement of most BCM programs, as evidenced by the strong commitment to expanded testing.
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Survey - The Role of HR in Business Continuity Management : The Human Dimension of BCM Summit Meeting
Published By:The BCI`
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Survey - Business Continuity Management 2008 (Report)
Published By:AT&T

For the seventh consecutive year, AT&T has completed a survey of 500 Information Technology (IT) executives around the US. The goal was to learn what these executives were doing about business continuity, and how it figured in their overall IT strategy. All the companies in the survey group had revenues in excess of $25 million, according to Dun and Bradstreet, and 73% represented companies with 100 or more employees, according to the respondents themselves. About 48% described their IT network as local, 22% as regional, 15% as international and 14% as national.

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Survey - Business Continuity Management 2007 (Presentation)
Published By:AT&T

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A Simple Way to Estimate the Cost of Downtime
Published By:David A. Patterson; Computer Science Division, University of California at Berkeley
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Ensuring Workforce Continuity During a Pandemic; Communications Best Practices
Published By:Varolii

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A Disaster In Waiting
Published By:Risk Magazine
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Storage Choices for Virtual Servers
Published By: Forrester
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