disaster recovery

Features

• 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?"

• Raiders of the Lost Archive: SaaS, Disaster Recovery

  By David Taber | 10 September, 2009 01:48

  Backup, archival, recovery, and redundant operations for business continuity are key success factors for industrial strength IT. But how do the rules of the game change with multi-tenant SaaS applications?

• Disaster-proof virtualisation on a dime: how I did it

  By Kevin Fogarty | 21 August, 2009 03:18

  Most companies virtualize servers to save money, save space and act faster on IT requests from the business. Human-resources outsourcing service The Sullivan Group virtualized its servers partially because company executives were worried about hurricanes.

• Ausenco virtualises to 95 percent, upgrades DR capability

  By Tim Lohman | 07 August, 2009 10:58

  Australian engineering, project management and operations company Ausenco has undertaken a major virtualisation and disaster recovery (DR) upgrade as a foundation to developing a private cloud for its core enterprise applications.

• DR a growing concern for A/NZ CIOs: Symantec

  By Tim Lohman | 02 July, 2009 09:16

  CIOs in Australia and New Zealand are increasingly getting involved in the disaster recovery planning of their organisations, according to a new survey from Symantec.

• Survey: Continuity Plans Factor in Mobile, Social Networking

  By Joan Goodchild | 11 June, 2009 01:23

  Business continuity planning has evolved from simply something companies hope never to roll out, to an important focus of security operations, according to a new survey from AT&T.

• Swine Flu Prompts Aussie CIOs to Revisit Business Continuity Plans

  By Tim Lohman | 28 April, 2009 10:28

  Australian health authorities may have given the all clear for two local suspected cases of the swine flu virus -- which has killed more than 80 people in Mexico and infected 20 in the United States -- but concern over the spread of the potentially fatal disease has local CIOs revisiting their business continuity plans (BCP).

• Seven strategies for keeping disaster recovery ON TARGET

  By Craig Sands and Andrew Truscott | 12 May, 2008 08:14

  It was a normal Monday batch process at a well-respected global bank - until, that is, a critical back-office system failed. At first, IT administrators took it in stride. This wasn't the only time they'd had to recover lost data. But soon it became clear something more ominous was occurring: the bank's multi-terabyte database had become corrupted.