As a business leader or business continuity professional you could be forgiven for thinking that your business had business continuity management mastered or you had done enough to mitigate most known predictable risks. The fact is, though, that few businesses really have.

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ICM’s half-year business continuity invocation statistics reveal that UK businesses need to reprioritise what they consider risks to their organisation.

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SunGard Availability Services  released its sixth annual analysis of major causes of business disruption in the UK.  The office is now firmly the main source of business disruption, with almost three times as many problems caused by workplace incidents such as power and communication failures than by technology failures involving hardware or other IT issues.

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Many businesses are not adequately prepared for major business disruption from possible political violence, says the global consultancy Control Risks.

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A survey conducted by Applied Research for Symantec suggests that “some 43% of businesses across Australia and New Zealand don’t have a disaster recovery plan in place,” according to Steve Martin, head of SMB products for Symantec’s Pacific operation.

Continue reading Australian SMBs are only marginally better prepared for disasters than those around the world.

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For a second year, extremes of weather have caused widespread disruption amongst survey responders; in particular the cold-snap, with only eight percent of those surveyed saying that it had no effect on their business. This has meant that extreme weather has, for the second year running, been the most persistent disruptive challenge, ahead of IT failure.

Continue reading Managing Threats in a Dangerous World The 2011 Business Continuity Management Survey

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CDW LLC, a provider of technology solutions to business, government, education and healthcare, announced the results of its Business Continuity Straw Poll, based on a survey of 200 Information Technology (IT) decision makers at medium and large U.S. businesses, each of which experienced significant network disruptions since July 2009. The survey investigated how their businesses reacted to the disruptions and the measures they are taking to improve their business continuity and disaster recovery (BC/DR) capabilities for the future.

Continue reading 2010 CDW Business Continuity Straw Poll: Resiliency Plans Don’t Align with Reality

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Compared to a year ago, small businesses feel more confident in dealing with such major disruptions to their business such as the heavy snowfalls across the UK in January and December 2010.

Continue reading Are SMEs winning the battle against business disruption or are too many still being caught out? asks Citrix Online survey

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Quantum Corp. a global specialist in backup, recovery and archive, released findings focused on disaster recovery from its 2010 IT Manager Survey.

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Small and midsize businesses (SMBs) in the United States ranked 10th out of 13 countries in their ability to bounce back from an IT disaster, trailed only by peers in Australia, France, and Italy, according to a new study by Acronis.

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Here are the 10 finalists in the backup and disaster recovery (DR) software and services category in Storage magazine’s and SearchStorage.com’s 2010 Products of the Year competition.

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