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ICT CONTINUITY

The six ‘gotchas’ of disaster recovery
Business continuity paradigm shift There are many factors that can complicate the recovery process if businesses aren't careful. Here are six of the biggest issues that organizations may face as they plan for continuity. By Philip Lieberman.

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Technology and business continuity in 2012
2012 will see a new wave of business continuity solutions based on virtualization and cloud technologies, says Paddy Falls.
Object storage for big unstructured data
How to create uniformly scalable storage systems with an automated healing mechanism. By Tom Leyden.
Latest news

Confidence in IT disaster recovery processes increases
Better resources and technologies lift business confidence in backup and disaster recovery: Acronis survey.

World IPv6 launch day: 6 June 2012
Many major ISPs, home networking equipment manufacturers, and web companies around the world are collectively working to permanently enable IPv6 for their products and services by 6 June 2012: World IPv6 launch day.

UK businesses urged to plan for network traffic load during the Olympics
Intergence offers five tips for protecting mission critical applications.

CERT Resilient Enterprise Management team issues technical note
‘Using Defined Processes as a Context for Resilience Measures’ describes how implementation-level processes can help organizations define measures of operational resilience.

UK enterprise data protection survey
80 percent of UK enterprise data storage managers surveyed believe that senior management underestimates the importance of data protection.

State of Resilience 2011
New Vision Solutions report looks at IT systems resiliency practices and expected changes going forward.

Future ICT...
ICT trends that business continuity managers need to be aware of.

IT disaster recovery predictions for 2012
The disaster recovery market will see a disruptive shift over the next year.

Many organizations struggling with disaster recovery
Iron Mountain survey finds that 68 percent of respondents see disaster recovery as their biggest data challenge.

Survey looks into backup and recovery challenges of virtual servers
ESG Research indicates increased need for protection as proliferation of virtualization continues.

Computer scientist announces software reliability and security breakthrough
Research should lead to much less software related downtime in the future.

Companies are adopting new mobility technologies but not preparing for associated risks to business continuity: AVG survey
There is a lack of understanding of the threats posed by business reliance on mobile phone and social networking use.

Pre-audit ‘clean-ups’ create risks
System administrators often make uncontrolled IT changes immediately prior to audits in order to meet compliance, after which they then let these changes lapse.

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More than a plan: establishing a disaster recovery program
Glen Bricker overviews ISO 27031 and ITIL IT Service Continuity Management and provides some pointers for choosing between these two ICT guidelines.

Enterprise notification software: the last system standing
Matthes Derdack discusses the key features to look for and potential pitfalls to avoid when selecting an enterprise notification system.

Tips for choosing disaster recovery technologies for your organization
When organizations are assessing IT requirements for business continuity purposes, it is important that they understand the true deliverability of various solutions on the market.

Top technology trends
Martin Kuppinger overviews the trends that business continuity managers need to be aware of.

Closing the divide between business continuity management and IT disaster recovery
It has almost become a cliché over many years now that IT disaster recovery frequently appears to be divorced from business continuity management within organizations. Ron Miller explains how the new ISO 27031 standard may help encourage a closure of this divide.

Enterprise wide backup: a checklist
Data management is entering a new era and Alexander Eiríksson provides some tips on how to make the most of new opportunities.

10-point RFP checklist for enterprises planning storage technology refresh initiatives
Integrating these ten steps into the storage migration vendor proposal request process should help reduce operational risks.

Taking an intelligent approach to data
Separating production and non-production data can make business continuity much more efficient but how can non-production data be identified? By Richard Fine.

The big virtualization win: backup, restore and disaster recovery
Making the most of virtualization for business continuity.

Products and services updates

Nimbus Launches E-Class flash memory system for mission-critical enterprise and cloud infrastructure
Scales to 500 TB with no single point of failure.

HP to ‘transform server market’ with single platform for mission-critical computing
HP has announced ‘Odyssey’; a project to redefine the future of mission-critical computing with a development roadmap that will unify UNIX and x86 server architecture.

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Understanding the correlation between data leakage and the security mission
Crisis management In many apparently very secure organizations, data leakage enabled by advanced evasion techniques is a potential disaster just waiting to happen. By Professor John Walker.

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