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Symantec publishes more results from fifth Annual IT Disaster Recovery Survey
Disaster recovery pressures rise due to cost of downtime and more stringent RTOs.
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•Date: 30th June 2009• Region: World •Type: Article •Topic: IT continuity
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Virtualization and disaster recovery: survey results
Virtualization can play major role in disaster recovery – but doesn’t provide a complete solution.
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•Date: 26th June 2009• Region: US/World •Type: Article •Topic: IT continuity
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Survey highlights disconnect between IT and business executives when it comes to business continuity and DR
Many business executives do not understand how disaster recovery and business continuity contribute to organizational success.
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•Date: 16th June 2009• Region: US •Type: Article •Topic: BC statistics
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Data corruption is fastest growing threat to business continuity
According to an analysis of SunGard’s UK invocations log.
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•Date:4th June 2009• Region: UK •Type: Article •Topic: BC statistics
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The 2009 Business Resiliency Survey
Senior management focus on resiliency has increased; pandemic planning lags behind other areas.
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•Date:4th June 2009• Region: World •Type: Article •Topic: BC statistics
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AT&T publishes results from eighth annual US business continuity study
Business continuity planning is evolving and investment is holding up.
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•Date:2nd June 2009• Region: US •Type: Article •Topic: BC statistics
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Many North American SMBs have poor quality business continuity plans
According to the 2009 Disaster Recovery & Business Continuity Survey conducted by Agility Recovery Solutions and Hughes Marketing Group.
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•Date:2nd June 2009• Region: N.America •Type: Article •Topic: BC statistics
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Business continuity salary and compensation reports now available
BC Management has released more results from its annual survey into business continuity salaries, compensation and contractor fees.
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•Date:28th May 2009• Region: Various •Type: Article •Topic: BC statistics
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Quality control in business continuity management: interim results
An overview of the results so far from Continuity Central’s latest survey.
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•Date: 22nd May 2009• Region: World •Type: Article •Topic: BC statistics
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Business continuity take-up in China
A new study by KPMG has found that a majority of companies in China have established business continuity management programs in place.
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•Date: 22nd May 2009• Region: SE Asia•Type: Article •Topic: BC statistics
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Florida companies taking business continuity seriously
90 percent of businesses in Miami, Orlando and Tampa have business continuity plans: AT&T Study.
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•Date: 8th May 2009• Region: US •Type: Article •Topic: BC statistics
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Telecoms is a weak link in US business continuity planning
US survey finds that only 1.5 percent of Fortune 500 companies have a plan for voice continuity.
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•Date:30th April 2009• Region: US •Type: Article •Topic: Telecoms continuity
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Business continuity statistics: where myth meets fact
Mel Gosling and Andrew Hiles explore the roots of various often quoted business continuity statistics.
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•Date: 24th April 2009• Region:World •Type: Article •Topic: BC statistics
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US business continuity salaries and compensation
The results of BC Management’s annual survey.
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•Date:8th April 2009• Region: US •Type: Article •Topic: BC statistics
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Data storage and recovery practices in the UK
The results of Databarracks’ annual Data Health Check survey.
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•Date:8th April 2009• Region: UK •Type: Article •Topic: BC statistics
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Survey looks into application availability
The number of applications needing very high availability has increased in the past two-to-three years.
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•Date:2nd April 2009• Region: US/World •Type: Article •Topic: IT continuity
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The role of HR in business continuity management
The Business Continuity Institute has released the results of a survey which looked at the role of human resource departments in BCM.
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•Date:31st March 2009• Region: UK •Type: Article •Topic: BC statistics
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UK economy loses £11.1 billion a year to major disruptions, claims the BCI
The Business Continuity Institute estimates that 0.8 percent of UK GDP is lost due to lack of business continuity management.
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•Date:24th March 2009• Region: UK •Type: Article •Topic: BC statistics
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Business Continuity Benchmarking Survey 2009
Continuity Forum Pty Ltd and the BCI's Australasian Chapter have launched a business continuity benchmarking study.
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•Date:24th March 2009• Region: Australia/NZ •Type: Article •Topic: BC statistics
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Chartered Management Institute issues its tenth annual report into business continuity in the UK
‘A Decade of Living Dangerously’ is jointly published with the Cabinet Office.
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•Date:20th March 2009• Region: UK •Type: Article •Topic: BC statistics
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Fire damage stats show the importance of ‘every day’ threats
Commercial fire damage in the UK was up 15 percent in 2008, compared to the previous year.
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•Date:6th March 2009• Region: UK •Type: Article •Topic: BC statistics
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UK local authorities given high marks for business continuity
According to a survey conducted by Adam Continuity.
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•Date:3rd March 2009• Region: UK •Type: Article •Topic: BC statistics
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The impacts of the current economic environment on organizational security
The results of an ASIS International survey.
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•Date:24th February 2009• Region: World •Type: Article •Topic: BC statistics
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Study looks into crisis communications processes
Lack of integration with contact databases and systems of record will render even sophisticated emergency communications systems highly ineffective.
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•Date:12th February 2009• Region: US •Type: Article •Topic: Crisis communications
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Survey looks into e-mail downtime
Damage to corporate reputation is seen as the biggest impact of e-mail downtime.
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•Date:10th February 2009• Region: World •Type: Article •Topic: IT continuity
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Each lost customer record costs UK enterprises £60
Study finds that the average cost of data breach has risen from £47 per customer record in 2007 to £60 in 2008.
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•Date:5th February 2009• Region: UK •Type: Article •Topic: BC statistics
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ENISA survey looks into resilience of communication networks
Reveals better than expected network availability.
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•Date:23rd January 2009• Region: UK/W.Europe •Type: Article •Topic: Telecoms cont.
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An IT continuity snapshot
A Neverfail survey has polled 595 organizations worldwide on their approach to IT continuity.
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•Date:23rd January 2009• Region: World •Type: Article •Topic: IT continuity
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Pandemic planning slips down the UK business agenda
Three quarters of UK bosses are not supportive of pandemic planning, according to Continuity Forum survey.
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•Date:22nd Dec 2008• Region: UK •Type: Article •Topic: BC statistics
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Survey looks at generational differences in downtime tolerance
UK over 55s are far less tolerant of unavailable products and services than younger generations.
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•Date:22nd Dec 2008• Region: UK •Type: Article •Topic: BC statistics
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The impact of the global financial crisis on the business continuity market
The final results of a recent survey by Continuity Central show that the effects of the credit crunch vary markedly from region to region.
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•Date: 20th Nov 2008• Region:Various •Type: Article •Topic: BC statistics
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Survey finds that business continuity information is not being disseminated in many UK organisations
Less than 50 percent of UK workers have been advised what to do in the event of their workplace becoming inaccessible.
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•Date: 4th Nov 2008• Region: UK •Type: Article •Topic: BC statistics
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Unencrypted backup tapes leave large hole in enterprise data protection
According to ‘2008 Encryption and Key Management Benchmark Survey’.
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•Date: 28th October 2008• Region: World •Type: Article •Topic: BC statistics
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Downtime in critical systems surveyed
Half of organizations ‘have experienced significant downtime in critical IT systems over the last twelve months.’
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•Date: 28th October 2008• Region: UK/World •Type: Article •Topic: BC statistics
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Global financial crisis having limited impact on the business continuity market
According to the interim results of Continuity Central’s latest survey.
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•Date: 22nd October 2008• Region: World •Type: Article •Topic: BC statistics
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Ernst & Young 2008 Global Information Security Survey
Brand protection is the major force driving information security.
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•Date: 15th October 2008• Region: World •Type: Article •Topic: BC statistics
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Stratus survey provides US business continuity snapshot
A survey by Stratus Technologies has sought to capture an overview of the current state of business continuity planning in the US
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•Date: 8th October 2008• Region: US •Type: Article •Topic: BC statistics
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Business continuity in Northern Ireland
Just over half of businesses in Northern Ireland have a business continuity plan.
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•Date: 23rd Sept 2008• Region: UK •Type: Article •Topic: BC statistics
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New Zealand exporters taking business continuity seriously
67 percent of 485 exporters surveyed by DHL have a business continuity plan and, of these, 73 percent have tested their plan.
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•Date: 19th Sept 2008• Region: New Zealand •Type: Article •Topic: BC statistics
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Preparing for email outages is a weak area in business continuity planning
According to a new survey.
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•Date: 29th August 2008• Region: UK •Type: Article •Topic: BC statistics
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Survey finds significant decline in executive involvement in disaster recovery planning
Also finds that disaster recovery plans are being reevaluated as a result of virtualization.
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•Date: 28th August 2008• Region: World •Type: Article •Topic: IT continuity
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New ‘Bouncebackability Index’ looks at business continuity planning in UK SMEs
Only a third of small and medium-sized enterprises have a business continuity plan in place.
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•Date: 28th August 2008• Region: UK •Type: Article •Topic: BC statistics
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YouGov survey looks into telecoms continuity and the cost of downtime
Telecoms downtime incident costs an average of £14,431.
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•Date: 1st August 2008• Region: UK •Type: Article •Topic: Telecoms continuity
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British businesses under flood-threat are failing to make IT continuity plans
According to a new survey.
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•Date: 31st July 2008• Region: UK •Type: Article •Topic: BC statistics
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2008 Business Resiliency Survey
Results published from comprehensive survey of resiliency planning in multinational organizations.
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•Date: 17th July 2008• Region: World •Type: Article •Topic: BC statistics
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Vodafone UK publishes Critical Response Time Index
Research provides information which helps in planning email recovery time objectives.
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•Date: 7th July 2008• Region: UK •Type: Article •Topic: BC statistics
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Invocations explored...
SunGard Availability Services has released a breakdown of all its UK invocations since 1995. The results show some interesting trends.
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•Date: 27th June 2008• Region: UK •Type: Article •Topic: BC statistics
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Two-thirds of UK companies lack confidence in their ability to recover Microsoft Exchange
According to survey.
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•Date: 12th June 2008• Region: UK •Type: Article •Topic: BC statistics
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Succession management research highlights its vital role in business survival
Ten year research programme finds that enterprises lacking effective succession management were five times more likely to disappear than those that had established robust practices.
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•Date: 4th June 2008• Region: UK/World •Type: Article •Topic: BC statistics
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AT&T 2008 Business Continuity Study
AT&T has published the results of its latest annual survey of business continuity practices in US organizations.
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•Date: 3rd June 2008• Region: US •Type: Article •Topic: BC statistics
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40 percent of US small businesses not prepared for disasters
Office Depot survey reveals that time and perceived expense are the biggest barriers to adequate preparation.
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•Date: 28th May 2008• Region: US •Type: Article •Topic: BC statistics
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Energy and resources companies make progress on security but no room for complacency: Deloitte
Sixty-seven percent of companies cite ‘human error’ as a root cause of security failures—ahead of technology and operations.
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•Date: 23rd May 2008• Region: World •Type: Article •Topic: BC statistics
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US business continuity salary and compensation report
BC Management, Inc., has released its latest report into compensations for full-time, permanent, business continuity employees in the US.
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•Date: 7th May 2008• Region: US •Type: Article •Topic: BC statistics
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The Conference Board looks into use of business continuity, disaster recovery and related standards by US organizations
No consensus on which is the most useful standard.
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•Date: 1st May 2008• Region: US •Type: Article •Topic: BC statistics
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Survey looks at business continuity in medium sized UK companies
Business continuity take-up is high; but testing is a weakness.
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•Date: 29th April 2008• Region: UK •Type: Article •Topic: BC statistics
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UK organisations rely on team spirit rather than business continuity plans to see them through a crisis: according to employees
A new study published by BT Global Services shows that most employees display a severe lack of awareness and understanding of organisational business continuity arrangements.
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•Date: 29th April 2008• Region: UK •Type: Article •Topic: BC statistics
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US businesses see supply chain risks rising
And supply chain risk management is lacking: Marsh survey.
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•Date: 18th April 2008• Region: US •Type: Article •Topic: Operational risk
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Business continuity budgets holding up
The results of Continuity Central’s recent survey.
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•Date: 11th April 2008• Region: Various •Type: Article •Topic: BC statistics
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Business continuity salary survey: your input requested
BC Management is asking all business continuity professionals to take part in its annual Compensation Benchmarking Survey.
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•Date: 11th April 2008• Region: World •Type: Article •Topic: BC statistics
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Marsh survey examines European attitudes to business continuity
Study finds that companies are failing to overcome a ‘perception gap’ in their approach to BCM.
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•Date: 8th April 2008• Region: UK/W.Europe •Type: Article •Topic: BC statistics
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UK disaster recovery planning activities examined
72 percent of all UK businesses have a disaster recovery plan in place, up from 58 percent two years ago; but testing is still a weak area.
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•Date: 4th April 2008• Region: UK •Type: Article •Topic: BC statistics
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‘Implementing Disaster Recovery Strategies and Technologies’
Aberdeen has announced today the publication of its latest benchmark report with the above title. Aberdeen surveyed over 150 end-user organizations, and results provide evidence that best-in-class IT organizations have built infrastructures that support rapid recovery of data and applications with minimal or no downtime which assures business continuity even in the face of a severe disruption event. While 62 percent of all the companies surveyed experienced between 1 and 5 business interruption events in the last 12 months, only 49 percent of the companies surveyed have had a business continuity strategy for more than 2 years, and 34 percent have yet to implement a solution. A complimentary copy of this report can be obtained after registration from http://www.aberdeen.com/link/sponsor.asp?cid=4662
•Date: 4th April 2008• Region: World •Type: Briefing •Topic: BC statistics
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Hardware failure remains highest cause of UK business continuity invocations
According to SunGard Availability Services.
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•Date: 2nd April 2008• Region: UK •Type: Article •Topic: BC statistics
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Climate change seen as top emerging risk
According to survey of major UK and European companies.
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•Date: 31st March 2008• Region: UK/W.Europe •Type: Article •Topic: BC statistics
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Chartered Management Institute publishes its annual business continuity survey
This year’s survey is supported by the Cabinet Office.
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•Date: 11th March 2008• Region:UK •Type: Article •Topic: BC statistics
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A third of UK businesses leave their back-up tapes in the office overnight
69 percent of small to medium-sized companies have not tested their backup systems in the last six months.
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•Date: 11th March 2008• Region: UK •Type: Article •Topic: BC statistics
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Survey highlights trends and risks of data protection in large enterprises
Enterprises are still relying heavily on physical tape systems for their data protection and disaster recovery.
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•Date: 6th March 2008• Region:US/World •Type: Article •Topic: IT continuity
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Business continuity accountability rising up the corporate ladder
But one in five large UK businesses still lack detailed business continuity plans: IDC survey.
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•Date: 6th March 2008• Region:UK •Type: Article •Topic: BC statistics
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Survey identifies IT continuity skills gap
New IT graduates aren't up to speed on business continuity and disaster recovery.
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•Date: 28th February 2008• Region:US/World •Type: Article •Topic: IT continuity
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The majority of Irish companies have no disaster recovery plan
67 percent of Irish businesses have no disaster recovery plan: survey.
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•Date: 20th February 2008• Region: W.Europe •Type: Article •Topic: BC statistics
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Survey reveals widespread vulnerability to email outages
But many companies fail to implement high availability solutions or develop disaster recovery plans.
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•Date: 25th January 2008• Region:US/World •Type: Article •Topic: IT continuity
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IT-related business continuity threats on the increase
According to latest SteelEye Business Continuity Index survey.
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•Date: 23rd January 2008• Region: World •Type: Article •Topic: IT continuity
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UK companies’ data security at risk due to lack of employee compliance
Many employees do not follow corporate policies on data and computer security: survey.
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•Date: 15th January 2008• Region: UK •Type: Article •Topic: BC statistics
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Majority of organizations are not prepared for a business outage lasting longer than seven days
According to a Gartner survey.
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•Date: 10th January 2008• Region: UK/N.America •Type: Article •Topic: BC stats
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Deloitte survey reveals need for increased security in the global technology, media & telecommunications sectors
TMT businesses are treading water when it comes to security and privacy.
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•Date: 10th January 2008• Region: World •Type: Article •Topic: BC statistics
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Confidence in business continuity plan quality increases
According to a Computer Weekly survey.
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•Date: 14th Dec 2007• Region: UK •Type: Article •Topic: BC statistics
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Survey shows slapdash staff risk corporate data
A survey of UK office workers has revealed that employees are hugely reliant on access to network data to do their jobs, yet show an alarming apathy about the value of that data. More than half (57 percent) have at some point lost an office work laptop/BlackBerry/USB stick, with the most common loss location being a pub, bar or restaurant. 63 percent of respondents have accidentally deleted data on the networks, whilst 69 percent admitted to saving more than 10 important work files on their PCs alone, causing major potential disruption if they were stolen or damaged. Source: Databarracks
•Date: 14th Dec 2007• Region: UK •Type: Briefing •Topic: BC statistics
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Business continuity in Australia
An overview of the results of a comprehensive benchmarking survey conducted by Continuity Forum Pty Ltd.
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•Date: 7th December 2007• Region: Australia •Type: Article •Topic: BC statistics
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Disaster recovery and data archiving dominate storage concerns for 2008
New survey reveals IT departments’ top storage concerns as they plan for the New Year.
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•Date: 4th Dec 2007• Region:UK/US •Type: Article •Topic: IT continuity
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UK businesses getting better at business continuity
According to a BSI survey.
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•Date: 20th Nov 2007• Region: UK •Type: Article •Topic: BC statistics
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Most UK businesses have inadequate pandemic plans
Fewer than a quarter of UK companies have made adequate plans for coping with a ‘flu pandemic, according to YouGov research. 30 percent of businesses have no strategy at all, while 14 percent have only rudimentary continuity plans, that need improvement. Read The Times Online story.
•Date: 20th Nov 2007• Region: UK •Type: Briefing •Topic: BC statistics
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Survey looks at business continuity priorities of Australian CIOs
Data communications moving up the criticality scale.
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•Date: 26th October 2007• Region: Australia •Type: Article •Topic: BC statistics
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In the past three years 62 percent of enterprises experienced major risk events: almost half were not well prepared
According to the IBM Global CFO Study; also finds that CFOs are increasingly becoming ‘owners’ of risk management.
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•Date: 25th October 2007• Region: World •Type: Article •Topic: BC statistics
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Survey explores the state of corporate disaster recovery planning
Symantec research finds that nearly half of full scenario testing conducted fails.
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•Date: 18th October 2007• Region:World •Type: Article •Topic: BC statistics
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Backups bite back
Backup volumes in many organisations have grown so large they are causing business disruption by tying up systems, storage, and network capacity and hogging valuable IT resources according to new research.
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•Date: 18th October 2007• Region:UK/N.America •Type: Article •Topic: BC statistics
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UK local authorities failing when it comes to some aspects of disaster recovery planning
Only 8 percent of local authorities interviewed in a new survey have disaster recovery plans that include provisions for denial of access to premises.
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•Date: 12th October 2007• Region: UK •Type: Article •Topic: BC statistics
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Records management is a weak area in many US organizations
Sixty-five percent of US public and private organizations do not have an enterprise-wide records management policy and program.
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•Date: 9th October 2007• Region: US •Type: Article •Topic: BC statistics
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Survey details top priorities of evolving data centers
42 percent of respondents to a Brocade survey rated business continuity and disaster recovery as current top priorities.
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•Date: 20th Sept 2007• Region: US/World •Type: Article •Topic: IT continuity
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Survey identifies strengths and weaknesses in UK business risk planning
UK business owners are better prepared than many of their global counterparts when it comes to planning for technology risks, according to Grant Thornton’s International Business Report.
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•Date: 18th Sept 2007• Region: UK •Type: Article •Topic: Operational risk
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Majority of US small businesses are unprepared for disasters
According to new survey by American Red Cross and FedEx Corp.
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•Date: 14th Sept 2007• Region: US •Type: Article •Topic: BC statistics
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Disaster preparedness still lacking in businesses: Info-Tech Research Group
Almost 60 percent of North American businesses do not have a disaster recovery plan in place to resume IT services in case of crisis, a survey conducted by Info-Tech has found. 1136 IT personnel in companies throughout the US and Canada were polled. Of the 475 companies which had implemented DR plans, just over one-quarter have had occasion to use them.
•Date: 11th Sept 2007• Region: N.America •Type: Briefing •Topic: BC statistics
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UK boards lack real understanding of IT risks facing their companies
According to a new survey into IT risk by PricewaterhouseCoopers.
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•Date: 4th Sept 2007• Region: UK •Type: Article •Topic: BC statistics
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Outsourcing of critical business infrastructure gathering steam
According to research by TheInfoPro.
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•Date: 29th Aug 2007• Region: World •Type: Article •Topic: BC statistics
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CIOs and CSOs under pressure to improve business continuity plans
Reduced recovery time objectives are top of requirement list, according to IDG survey.
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•Date: 20th August 2007• Region: US/World •Type: Article •Topic: BC statistics
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Business continuity standards
An overview of the results of a worldwide survey.
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•Date: 10th August 2007• Region: World •Type: Article •Topic: BC statistics
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Business continuity management in UK companies
The results of a survey by SunGard Availability Services into the current status of BCM within UK companies.
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•Date: 9th August 2007• Region: UK •Type: Article •Topic: BC statistics
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Osterman Research survey looks at e-mail downtime
An average of 1.6 unplanned downtime incidents per month reported.
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•Date: 7th August 2007• Region: World•Type: Article •Topic: IT continuity
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Survey finds business continuity failures in Irish government departments
29 percent of Irish government departments have no business continuity strategy.
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•Date: 11th July 2007• Region: W.Europe •Type: Article •Topic: BC statistics
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UK business continuity salary survey report
Continuity Forum finds that the overall average salary for BC professionals is now £45,552.
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•Date: 28th June 2007 • Region: UK •Type: Article •Topic: BC statistics
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Unified communications critical to disaster recovery and continuity of operations planning
According to Cisco survey.
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•Date: 26th June 2007 • Region: US •Type: Article •Topic: BC statistics
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Survey of facilities managers highlights their key role within business continuity management
92 percent of BCPs have FM input.
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•Date: 26th June 2007 • Region: UK •Type: Article •Topic: BC facilities and buildings
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Pyxis study reveals business continuity planners' preference for handhelds over laptops
‘Handhelds are more mobile and have longer battery life than laptops without sacrificing accessibility to core data’.
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•Date: 21st June 2007 • Region: World •Type: Article •Topic: BC statistics
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AT&T survey sees high take-up of business continuity amongst London businesses
More than 83 percent of London executives indicate that their company has a business plan in place.
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•Date: 14th June 2007 • Region: UK •Type: Article •Topic: BC statistics
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Is IT downtime out of control?
80 percent of all companies admit to having a problem with downtime of their IT systems: UK survey.
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•Date: 14th June 2007 • Region: UK •Type: Article •Topic: IT continuity
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2007 AT&T Business Continuity Study
A disaster-filled year has not encouraged additional take-up of business continuity planning in the US.
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•Date: 31st May 2007 • Region: US •Type: Article •Topic: BC statistics
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Vast majority of UK businesses are unprepared for an influenza pandemic
According to YouGov research.
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•Date: 31st May 2007 • Region: UK •Type: Article •Topic: Pandemic planning
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Slow decision-making causing problems in UK business continuity planning processes
According to Marathon Technologies and Tickbox.net survey.
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•Date: 24th May 2007 • Region: UK •Type: Article •Topic: BC statistics
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US survey shows many small businesses are complacent when it comes to disaster preparedness
Majority of small business owners ‘are not worried about the impact a disaster can have on their business’.
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•Date: 24th May 2007 • Region: US •Type: Article •Topic: BC statistics
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Signs that business continuity is becoming mainstream in the UK
New survey continues encouraging trend.
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•Date: 17th May 2007 • Region: UK •Type: Article •Topic: BC statistics
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Business continuity in Oman and UAE explored
Vast majority of companies are considering business continuity planning; but tends to be confined to the IT department.
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•Date: 17th May 2007 • Region: Middle East •Type: Article •Topic: BC statistics
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Downtime costs European businesses £300k per hour on average
According to Global Switch survey.
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•Date: 11th May 2007 • Region: UK/W.Europe •Type: Article •Topic: BC stats
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Power disruption is fastest growing downtime threat to UK organisations
SunGard Availability Services has revealed the major causes of business disruption in 2006, according to its invocation statistics.
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•Date: 2nd May 2007 • Region: UK •Type: Article •Topic: BC statistics
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Oil companies struggling to keep on top of emerging threats
According to a survey by Marsh.
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•Date: 27th April 2007 • Region: M.East / World •Type: Article •Topic: BC statistics
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Survey looks at EMEA data-related business continuity and disaster recovery practices
UK at the bottom of the league when it comes to testing.
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•Date: 27th April 2007 • Region: Various •Type: Article •Topic: IT continuity
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Multinational corporations are facing increasingly diverse, complex and exotic risks
But damage to reputation tops the threat list: Aon Global Risk Management survey.
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•Date: 26th April 2007 • Region: World •Type: Article •Topic: Operational risk
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Harris survey examines current attitudes to disaster recovery, business continuity and information availability
Finds that IT executives place a higher priority on BC and IA than business executive counterparts.
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•Date: 24th April 2007 • Region: US/World •Type: Article •Topic: BC statistics
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Most companies failing to test IT disaster recovery/failover systems often enough
According to a survey of more than 500 senior IT professionals.
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•Date: 17th April 2007 • Region: US/World •Type: Article •Topic: BC statistics
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North American business continuity and disaster recovery services market tipped to reach $23 billion by 2012
Market hit $15.1 billion in 2006.
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•Date: 17th April 2007 • Region: US •Type: Article •Topic: BC markets
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Lost White House e-mails illustrate a common issue for US businesses
Company employees use personal e-mail to avoid corporate review or retention of their messages: survey.
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•Date: 17th April 2007 • Region: US •Type: Article •Topic: IT continuity
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IT and business continuity in higher education
The EDUCAUSE Center for Applied Research has published a detailed report into the above subject.
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•Date: 3rd April 2007 • Region: US •Type: Article •Topic: BC statistics
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Survey reveals ‘widespread inadequacies’ in e-mail downtime prevention
Few companies protect themselves effectively: King Research survey.
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•Date: 3rd April 2007 • Region: World •Type: Article •Topic: IT continuity
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Virtualization benefits being lost due to lack of holistic approach : CA survey
Business continuity seen as one of the key drivers for implementation; but a consistent approach is needed.
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•Date: 30th March 2007 • Region: World •Type: Article •Topic: IT continuity
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On the up…
HP global survey predicts that business continuity and availability solutions spending will increase during 2007.
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•Date: 27th March 2007• Region: UK •Type: Article •Topic: BC markets
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Chartered Management Institute publishes its annual survey of UK business continuity practices
One of the longest running industry surveys.
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•Date: 20th March 2007 • Region: UK •Type: Article •Topic: BC statistics
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Economist Intelligence Unit survey highlights the extreme criticality of IT systems
Almost half of companies surveyed said that a 24-hour IT failure would threaten their survival.
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•Date: 2nd March 2007 • Region: UK/World •Type: Article •Topic: IT continuity
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Barclays survey reviews SME threats
Most SMEs are more concerned with business risks than external threats.
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•Date: 1st March 2007 • Region: UK •Type: Article •Topic: BC statistics
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Survey finds encouraging news on UK business continuity take-up
80 percent of companies surveyed by Computer Business Review have some sort of business continuity plan.
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•Date: 28th Feb 2007 • Region: UK•Type: Article •Topic: BC statistics
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2006 was the least costly year of the last two decades in terms of natural disasters
According to United Nations International Strategy for Disaster Reduction figures.
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•Date: 27th Feb 2007 • Region: World •Type: Article •Topic: BC statistics
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AT&T survey looks at business continuity plans of Los Angeles companies
Read a PDF of a supplement on business continuity which appeared with the Times newspaper this week.
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•Date: 16th Feb 2007 • Region: US •Type: Article •Topic: BC statistics
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A third of UK medium-sized companies have no website disaster recovery plans
Online revenue streams and brand reputation being put at risk: Vanson Bourne survey.
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•Date: 16th Feb 2007 • Region: UK •Type: Article •Topic: BC statistics
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DataMonitor research finds financial sector business continuity divide
City traders and brokers are much less well prepared than other FS firms.
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•Date: 15th Feb 2007 • Region: UK •Type: Article •Topic: Financial sector
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Soaring data volumes put pressure on IT infrastructure
PMP Research survey explores the issue.
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•Date: 6th Feb 2007 • Region: World •Type: Article •Topic: IT continuity
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Irish backup survey finds ‘shocking practices’
90 percent of companies surveyed are not performing weekly test restores as suggested by best practice…
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•Date: 2nd Feb 2007 • Region: W.Europe •Type: Article •Topic: BC statistics
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UK local authorities show considerable progress in risk management
According to ALARM Risk Management Benchmarking Survey.
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•Date: 25th January 2007 • Region: UK •Type: Article •Topic: BC statistics
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US use of third party IT continuity services remains focussed on disaster recovery facilities
According to a survey by TheInfoPro.
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•Date: 25th January 2007 • Region: US •Type: Article •Topic: BC statistics
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Political risk improves worldwide: Aon
But significant challenges continue to emerge…
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•Date: 24th January 2007 • Region: World •Type: Article •Topic: Operational risk
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Continuity Forum UK business continuity salary survey report
Private sector salaries increase by 6.4 percent and public sector by 1.2 percent.
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•Date: 17th January 2007 • Region: UK •Type: Article •Topic: BC statistics
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Global Risks 2007
World Economic Forum report assesses 23 ‘core’ risks facing companies around the world.
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•Date: 16th January 2007 • Region: World •Type: Article •Topic: BC statistics
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Business continuity uptake in UAE examined
KPMG’s UAE division has published the results of a comprehensive survey into business continuity in the Emirate.
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•Date: 9th January 2007 • Region: Middle East •Type: Article •Topic: BC stats
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