ICT CONTINUITY NEWS

Confidence in IT disaster recovery processes increases
Better resources and technologies lift business confidence in backup and disaster recovery: Acronis survey.
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•Date: 3rd February 2012 • World •Type: Article

Nimbus Launches E-Class flash memory system for mission-critical enterprise and cloud infrastructure
Scales to 500 TB with no single point of failure.
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•Date: 3rd February 2012 • US/World •Type: Article

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.
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•Date: 2nd February 2012 • World •Type: Article

UK businesses urged to plan for network traffic load during the Olympics
Intergence offers five tips for protecting mission critical applications.
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•Date: 27th January 2012 • UK •Type: Article

Object storage for big unstructured data
How to create uniformly scalable storage systems with an automated healing mechanism. By Tom Leyden.
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•Date: 26th January 2012 • Region: World •Type: Article

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.
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•Date: 26th January 2012 • Region: World •Type: Article

The six ‘gotchas’ of disaster recovery
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.
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•Date: 20th January 2012 • Region: World •Type: Article

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.
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•Date: 23rd December 2011 • US/World •Type: Article

UK enterprise data protection survey
80 percent of UK enterprise data storage managers surveyed believe that senior management underestimates the importance of data protection.
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•Date: 15th December 2011 • UK •Type: Article

State of Resilience 2011
New Vision Solutions report looks at IT systems resiliency practices and expected changes going forward.
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•Date: 9th December 2011 • Region: World •Type: Article

Future ICT...
ICT trends that business continuity managers need to be aware of.
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•Date: 2nd December 2011 • Region: World •Type: Article

IT disaster recovery predictions for 2012
The disaster recovery market will see a disruptive shift over the next year.
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•Date: 30th November 2011 • Region: World •Type: Article

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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•Date: 30th November 2011 • Region: World •Type: Article

Many organizations struggling with disaster recovery
Iron Mountain survey finds that 68 percent of respondents see disaster recovery as their biggest data challenge.
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•Date: 22nd November 2011 • Region: World •Type: Article

Survey looks into backup and recovery challenges of virtual servers
ESG Research indicates increased need for protection as proliferation of virtualization continues.
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•Date: 18th November 2011 • Region: US •Type: Article

Computer scientist announces software reliability and security breakthrough
Research should lead to much less software related downtime in the future.
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•Date: 3rd November 2011 • Region: World •Type: Article

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.
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•Date: 18th October 2011 • Region: US/World •Type: Article

Neverfail launches Virtual Availability Director
Helps provide a single console from where administrators can manage and maintain continuous availability for all their business critical applications.
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•Date: 13th October 2011 • Region: World •Type: Article

Blackberry downtime caused by business continuity failure
RIM’s problems raise some important issues for all business continuity managers.
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•Date: 12th October 2011 • Region: World •Type: Article

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.
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•Date: 4th October 2011 • Region: World •Type: Article

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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•Date: 29th September 2011 • Region: World •Type: Article

Council of Europe calls for Internet continuity preparedness
The Committee of Ministers has urged EU states to develop policies, in conjunction with other stakeholders, to prevent and respond to harm to the Internet.
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•Date: 28th September 2011 • Region: Europe/UK •Type: Article

IBM survey looks into views on data storage
Many IT decision makers are looking into the benefits of solid-state storage technology.
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•Date: 23rd September 2011 • Region: US •Type: Article

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.
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•Date: 22nd Sept 2011 • Region: World •Type: Article

Understanding the correlation between data leakage and the security mission
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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•Date: 21st Sept 2011 • Region: World •Type: Article

Businesses are failing the data protection challenge
A recent survey has found that almost 90 percent of businesses experienced data loss in the last year.
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•Date: 15th September 2011 • Region: UK/World •Type: Article

Venafi calls on enterprises and government agencies to formulate certificate authority compromise disaster recovery plans
With DigiNotar joining the ranks of Comodo, StartSSL and RSA as a trusted third-party security organization successfully compromised by hackers, enterprises need to move past the shock and begin formulating their own compromise recovery and business continuity plans, states Venafi.
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•Date: 9th September 2011 • Region: World •Type: Article

Virtualization trend makes application availability issues harder to resolve
When a problem occurs, virtualization is the enemy of visibility...
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•Date: 8th September 2011 • Region: World •Type: Article

CommVault releases results of annual end-user virtualization survey
Survey shows a groundswell of support for running business-critical applications on virtual machines in the production environment.
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•Date: 2nd September 2011 • Region: World •Type: Article

Is SSD/Flash as reliable as users think?
Data storage technology is trending toward SSD/Flash both on an enterprise and consumer level; however more than 50 percent of respondents to a Kroll Ontrack have experienced data loss with SSD/Flash devices.
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•Date: 24th August 2011 • Region: World •Type: Article

Measures for Managing Operational Resilience
A new technical report has been published by the CERT Resilient Enterprise Management team.
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•Date: 15th August 2011 • Region: US/World •Type: Article

IT cost-cutting resulting in more business continuity problems
According to a recent survey by Wakefield Research for HP.
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•Date: 29th July 2011 • Region: US •Type: Article

Tape is far from dead
Survey of 1000 UK businesses looks at data backup practices.
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•Date: 21st July 2011 • Region: UK •Type: Article

New research looks at disaster recovery and data backup methods in US small businesses
Carbonite Inc. has reported on new research into the disaster recovery and data backup methods being used by US small businesses.
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•Date: 19th July 2011 • Region: US •Type: Article

Business Assurance for the 21st Century
Document highlights plans for a global repository of assessments for assurance of the IT supply chain.
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•Date: 15th July 2011 • Region: World •Type: Article

ISACA invites public comment on COBIT 5 drafts
Comment period closes on 31 July.
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•Date: 13th July 2011 • Region: World •Type: Article

Downtime in online business operations examined
New survey reveals worrying reliance on one data centre despite high number of outages.
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•Date: 28th June 2011 • Region: UK •Type: Article

Distribute IT failure highlights the importance of maintaining offsite backups
Belts and braces business continuity requires an offsite backup of critical data on physical media.
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•Date: 24th June 2011 • Region: Australia / World •Type: Article

The business continuity problems of patching
50 percent of businesses have suffered IT failures due to software updates gone wrong.
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•Date: 22nd June 2011 • Region: UK/World •Type: Article

DHS publishes risk management strategy for the global DNS system
Describes how the IT sector and DNS communities can address risks to enhance the resiliency and safety of the Internet and aims to ensure that cyber networks can bounce back quickly if a major attack or disaster strikes.
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•Date: 21st June 2011 • Region: US/World •Type: Article

Systematic workload reprovisioning: an overview
Systematic workload reprovisioning will become increasingly prevalent in leading-edge enterprises for high-risk workloads during the next five years: Gartner.
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•Date: 16th June 2011 • Region: World •Type: Article

‘IT - the hidden risk in your business’: a new report by the Business Continuity Institute
The BCI has published a new report which summarises the discussions at its IT Risk Management Roundtable which was held in March 2011.
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•Date: 10th June 2011 • Region: UK/World •Type: Article

IT disaster recovery planning: US and UK comparisons
A survey by Neverfail shows significant differences between the US and the UK when it comes to IT disaster recovery planning.
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•Date: 8th June 2011 • Region: US/UK •Type: Article

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.
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•Date: 31st May 2011 • Region: World •Type: Article

Cisco highights IPv6 transition resources
New offerings address findings from a new study that reveal concerns about the security, deployment and maintenance of IPv6.
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•Date: 26th May 2011 • Region: US/World •Type: Article

Downtime in focus
The results of a survey into downtime issues and impacts; average business has 14 hours of downtime per year.
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•Date: 25th May 2011 • Region: World •Type: Article

Vision Solutions launches new resilience capabilities for virtualized environments and Microsoft Exchange 2010
New versions of Double-Take Availability, Double-Take RecoverNow and Double-Take Move.
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•Date: 19th May 2011 • Region: World •Type: Article

UK enterprises identify email management as primary information management pain point
This inability to gain control over enterprise email at a time when information risk is escalating, will have costly repercussions to businesses in the long term.
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•Date: 13th May 2011 • Region: UK •Type: Article

‘Distributed users’ a bigger challenge than cloud for application performance management
Survey reveals that resources allocated to address the growing risks of distributed users are inadequate.
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•Date: 13th May 2011 • Region: World •Type: Article

Many organizations face future disruption to mission-critical systems due to failure to prepare for IPv6
Many companies not ready for IPv6: Ipswitch poll. The time to act is now!
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•Date: 12th May 2011 • Region: US/World •Type: Article

Survey reveals significant potential for adoption of industry best practice for advanced enterprise notifications
Reliance on ‘fire-and-forget’ alerting leaving companies with higher risk of business interruption.
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•Date: 12th May 2011 • Region: World •Type: Article

BlackBerry business continuity issues explored
New research finds that organizations face growing pressure to keep BlackBerry services up and running.
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•Date: 27th April 2011 • Region: World •Type: Article

A snapshot of UK technology continuity practices
Neverfail survey finds that many organizations don’t know the hourly cost of downtime; and many have yet to be convinced that cloud platforms offer a reliable disaster recovery option.
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•Date: 21st April 2011 • Region: UK •Type: Article

Survey finds that many enterprises have a poor understanding of IT risk
One-third of IT administrators do not have an accurate picture of IT risk facing their organizations.
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•Date: 13th April 2011 • Region: World •Type: Article

Information protection is a growing headache for enterprises
Study finds that 70 percent of organizations lack a holistic approach to managing business-critical information.
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•Date: 6th April 2011 • Region: World •Type: Article

Top technology trends
Martin Kuppinger overviews the trends that business continuity managers need to be aware of.
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•Date: 5th April 2011 • Region: World •Type: Article

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.
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•Date: 5th April 2011 • Region: World •Type: Article

How to measure IT resilience
A new report from the European Network and Information Security Agency.
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•Date: 29th March 2011 • Region: UK/Europe •Type: Article

Closing the divide between business continuity management and IT disaster recovery
Ron Miller explains how the new ISO 27031 standard may help encourage a closure of the BCM - ITDR divide.
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•Date: 25th March 2011 • Region: UK/World •Type: Article

A growing downtime threat: mismanaged encryption
A Venafi survey found that 78 percent of organizations surveyed experienced downtime due to mismanaged encryption.
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•Date: 22nd March 2011 • Region: World •Type: Article

Use tape to keep a firm grip on data stored in the cloud
Says Jerome M. Wendt.
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•Date: 18th March 2011 • Region: World •Type: Article

BS ISO/IEC 27031:2011 now available
Replacement standard for BS 25777:2008 can now be purchased from BSI.
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•Date: 18th March 2011 • Region: UK/World •Type: Article

IPv6 test date set
World IPv6 Day on 8 June, 2011 will provide a chance to test how well Internet-based applications will transition to IPv6.
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•Date: 15th March 2011 • Region: World •Type: Article

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.
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•Date: 11th March 2011 • Region: World •Type: Article

UK Internet traffic routing creates resiliency risks
The current pattern of Internet traffic routing in the UK lacks resiliency, warns the Onyx Group.
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•Date: 8th March 2011 • Region: UK •Type: Article

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.
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•Date: 3rd March 2011 • Region: World •Type: Article

Getting real about deduplication ratios
What are realistic deduplication expectations? By Jerome M. Wendt.
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•Date: 24th Feb 2011 • Region: World •Type: Article

The big virtualization win: backup, restore and disaster recovery
Making the most of virtualization for business continuity.
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•Date: 17th Feb 2011 • Region: World •Type: Article

US survey identifies the top barriers to data protection deployments
Management complexity, total cost of ownership and network bandwidth are key obstacles to comprehensive disaster recovery initiatives.
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•Date: 10th Feb 2011 • Region: US •Type: Article

Mainframe thoughts
2011 will be the year when the UK mainframe community abandons its 1980s-style tape technologies, says John Taffinder.
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•Date: 4th Feb 2011 • Region: UK/World •Type: Article

New backup and recovery software ‘reduplicates’ backup data for optimal recovery times
eSilo’s SiloSphere claims to cut restore times by up to 99 percent.
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•Date: 4th Feb 2011 • Region: World •Type: Article

NIST issues final version of full virtualization security guidelines
The US National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has issued the final version of its recommendations for securely configuring and using full computing virtualization technologies. The security recommendations are contained in the Guide to Security for Full Virtualization Technologies (NIST Special Publication (SP) 800-125).
•Date: 4th Feb 2011 • Region: US •Type: Briefing

How to design end-to-end resilient networks
ENISA has updated its advice on the essential design principles that are necessary for end-to-end resilience of data networks.
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•Date: 25th Jan 2011 • Region: Europe/UK •Type: Article

New business continuity solution for BlackBerry Enterprise Server
Helps organizations provide uninterrupted email access to BlackBerry smartphone users.
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•Date: 21st Jan 2011 • Region: World •Type: Article

EMC claims backup and archiving breakthrough
Launches the industry's first long term retention system for backup and archive data.
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•Date: 20th Jan 2011 • Region: World •Type: Article

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