• From what to watt, Emerson aims at total information awareness

  By Patrick Thibodeau | 17 May, 2012 07:22

  Someday soon the digital economy will be powered by big black boxes, formerly known as datacentres, that are so self-managing they may be partly robotic.

• Large enterprises handing off data center builds

  By Ann Bednarz | 23 April, 2012 20:29

  Demand for data center space is on the rise. IT pros responsible for facility planning are juggling physical requirements for secure, power-abundant space with operational considerations, including the need to improve disaster recovery, deploy new applications and services, and handle increasingly large data volumes.

• How the Cloud democratises and complicates disaster recovery

  By Jeff Vance | 12 April, 2012 10:56

  Cloud computing is slowly upending the disaster recovery market. Only a few years ago, disaster recovery meant one of two things: For large organisations, it necessitated huge capital investments; for the mid-market on down, it meant backing up only the most important data to tape and shuffling it off to a secure location.

• Business continuity emerges as latest IPv6 killer app

  By Carolyn Duffy Marsan | 12 April, 2012 02:26

  DENVER - IPv6 appears to have found a new killer app: business continuity.

• Facebook, Twitter are life lines as tornadoes wallop Texas

  By Sharon Gaudin | 05 April, 2012 03:17

  As tornadoes ripped through Texas on Tuesday, hurling tractor-trailer trucks in the air and shredding houses, people took to social networks to warn of advancing storms and to help their neighbors.

• Business continuity planning - more than just disaster recovery

  By Allan Davies | 12 February, 2011 08:00

  As a nation, we have certainly faced our fair share of disasters lately; flooding in Queensland and Victoria, cyclones in Queensland and massive bush fires in Western Australia — just months after devastating earthquakes in Christchurch. Our hearts certainly goes out to all of the people affected by these disasters but I personally feel the pain of all the IT professionals who are, or will be, working tirelessly to bring IT systems back on-line in order to maintain some form of business continuity in these affected areas.

• Dealing with disaster

  By Tim Mendham | 06 September, 2010 10:08

  Earthquakes? Volcanoes? Pandemics? Tsunamis? Are these the stuff of business continuity? Gartner has issued several papers covering major disasters such as the Iceland volcano eruption and its impact on business travel, admitting that “few, if any, businesses plan for a volcanic ash disruption scenario”, which is probably the understatement of the year.

• Your workplace in 2020: Gartner's predictions

  By Thomas Wailgum | 05 August, 2010 02:23

  How will people work 10 years from now? Gartner thinks it has a pretty good idea, predicting 10 major changes that will occur during the next 10 years.

• Disaster Recovery in the Cloud Yields ROI

  By Kim S. Nash | 17 June, 2010 05:53

  The promise of cost savings derived from cloud computing is attractive, but concrete financial returns are not always quickly achieved. Except, perhaps, when it comes to disaster recovery.

• Best Practices For IT Availability

  By Stephanie Balaouras | 17 December, 2009 04:40

  Forrester often gets inquiries such as, "What requirements should we keep in mind while developing our disaster recovery plans and documents?" and, "Which strategies work best for managing our disaster recovery program once it's in place?"

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