Global Disaster Alert Business Survival ™ NewsNEW BOOK! Lukaszewski on Crisis Communication: What Your CEO Needs to Know about Reputation Risks and Crisis Management, by Jim Lukaszewski
A Global Grand Master and Pioneer – Who Helped Shape the Modern Discipline of Crisis Communication – Has Distilled a Career’s Worth of Knowledge and Practical Advice… to tell your CEO and advisers what they must do to preserve, protect, defend, and recover their brands, reputations, even careers. More...
NEW! Easy-to-Use Template for Comprehensive Business Continuity Management to Enhance Your Organization's Resilience
Easy-to-use, comprehensive, expert, step-by-step instructions and templates – just what you’re looking for if you need a clear, actionable Business Continuity Plan More...
Emergency Management Exercises: From Response to Recovery Special
Exercises are a mainstay in the field of emergency management and business continuity planning. Although many companies conduct exercises, and the organizers may be emergency response subject matter experts, they do not excel in the discipline of designing and conducting the actual exercise – which means they simply don’t get the best results out of their effort. More...
NEW BOOK! The Cost of Emotions in the Workplace: Bottom Line Value of Emotional Continuity Management
Dr. Vali Hawkins Mitchell, a leading authority in the growing field of Emotional Continuity Management, makes a compelling business case that human emotions have a calculable, direct impact on the fiscal bottom line, and gives you powerful, practical tools to manage those costs. More...
Facility Emergency Management DVD-based training
Facility Emergency Management is a brand new DVD-based Training Program PLUS a resource CD-ROM intended to help small and medium size organizations create facility action plans and institute emergency procedures in order to protect workers, customers, visitors and the nearby community from the effects of an incident, whether it begins inside or outside the facility. More...
NEW BOOK: Hiles on Business Continuity: Global Best Practices (Third Edition) by Thought Leader Andrew Hiles.
Confidently create your BCP from scratch – or improve the one you have – aided by Hiles’ wide-ranging perspective, including case studies, global standards, and hard-won insights into what works and why. More...
New cloud-aware disaster recovery automation software could free IT from complex runbooks and expensive recoverability exercises. Continue reading DR-As-A-Service Moves Closer To Reality
Tags: automation, cloud services, cloud-aware, Disaster Recovery, runbook automation, virtualization
In IT, failure is not an option. Not surprisingly, organizations have made it a high priority to develop and implement reliable business continuity plans to ensure that IT services are always available to internal users and outside customers.
Continue reading 4 critical trends in IT business continuity
Tags: cloud computing, I.T. DIsaster Recovery, mobile devices in the workforce, Social Networking, virtualization
Looking at trends in disaster recovery (DR) planning from 2009, it has become clear that virtualization has become a critical consideration in DR planning and design.
Continue reading Virtualization and disaster recovery: Best practices for disaster recovery planners
Tags: Disaster Recovery, failover, replication technologies, virtualization
Looking at trends in disaster recovery (DR) planning from 2009, it has become clear that virtualization has become a critical consideration in DR planning and design. A 2009 DR survey from Symantec Corp. found that 64% of organizations are re-evaluating disaster recovery plans based on virtualization. But why?
Continue reading Virtualization and disaster recovery: Best practices for disaster recovery planners
Tags: CDP, continuous data protection, data replication, Disaster Recovery, virtualization
Virtualization is transforming the data center. But did you know that virtualization can increase the risk of application downtime? Find out what it takes to get the same level of high availability and disaster recovery protection in the virtual server environment as in the physical environment.
Continue reading How Virtualization Changes Your Disaster Recovery Plans
Tags: high availability, Symantec, virtualization
Virtualization is great for saving money and resources, but if you lose a virtual server you have larger bigger problems than if you had just lost a single server.
Continue reading Four Disaster Recovery Options for Virtualized Environments
Tags: I.T. DIsaster Recovery, virtual machines, virtualization
IT disaster recovery usually addresses three fundamental matters: protect the data first, the applications second, and then cover the sites that hold the data and applications. But there is a fourth dimension to data recovery: how it can help further strategic IT objectives. Do you see only the first three levels of DR in your organization?
Continue reading Do Your Disaster Recovery Resources Pay For Themselves Every Day?
Virtualization eliminates the need to constantly buy and provision new servers; it can create cost savings as significant as 50%.
Virtual server technologies provide government agencies with the ability to do more with less, enabling the consolidation of data and applications onto a single server.The result is reduced costs, simplified IT management, and minimized space requirements.
Tags: Continuity of Operations Planning, coop, virtual servers, virtualization
IT managers have eagerly implemented virtualization to reap its many benefits: lower hardware and energy costs, more flexibility, faster responsiveness to changing and new applications, and improved resiliency.
But when disaster strikes, some IT managers find their disaster recovery techniques and hardware configuration have not kept pace with their changed production environment, and they’re stuck, along with their recovery times, in the previrtualization era.
Tags: Business Resilience, Disk replication, I.T. DIsaster Recovery, Remote data protection, SANS, servers, virtualization, VMware
For all organizations, the impact that a disaster can have on its business is significant. From small events such as a lost e-mail or corrupted files through to large-scale problems caused by fire or flooding, the cost of downtime can be huge. This can be particularly expensive, affecting not only the company’s brand but also the ability to serve customers, says Ian Masters, Double-Take Software.
Business continuity planning continues to be a necessary part of the IT strategy. However, it also has to adapt to the changing requirements of the organization, and play a greater role in the success that companies are aiming for. By changing focus and looking at how availability and IT skills can improve overall performance, the return on investment from business continuity does not have to wait until a disaster comes.
See Business Continuity: Insurance Policy Or An Opportunity To Improve? by Ian Masters.
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