Jun 13, 2016
Information Technology (IT) as energy is not a new concept but has been spoken about in the 1990s and the early 2000s. It is the analogy were IT services can be regarded in a similar light to energy, writes AJ Hartenberg, portfolio manager: data centre services at...
Apr 21, 2016
As more and more African organisations wake up to the need for business continuity, ContinuitySA’s GM: Africa, Willem Olivier, says that while insourcing might seem like the easy option, there are some significant pitfalls–as well as higher costs over the...
Apr 7, 2016
The dynamics involved in selling or leasing ICT equipment, and related support, continues to change at a rapid rate, the pace determined by innovation. Experts in ICT services and solutions point out that over time vendor/client contracts, lease periods, migration of...
Apr 6, 2016
Organisations need to move away from treating business continuity and disaster recovery as isolated IT conversations. Unless businesses ensure they also take people and processes into account when planning for disasters, they run the risk of not surviving them. This...
Apr 1, 2016
The discipline of business continuity management has changed – and the days of it being exclusively driven by IT are long gone. Redstor, a global provider of cloud backup services and data protection solutions, says businesses can no longer function in...
Jan 14, 2016
First there was disaster recovery, then came business continuity and now companies are looking for ways to build business resilience. “This changing vocabulary reflects the nature of the business context and how companies are looking to mitigate risk,”...
