May 22, 2015
Regardless of the size and nature of your business, if you store your data, and your customers’ data, you need a safe and secure way to back up and store that data. In fact, selecting the right backup system or service should be one of the first things a company does,...
May 21, 2015
ISO22301 for business continuity provides an international standard against which businesses can now be audited and awarded a certification of compliance. But, for those tasked with putting the Business Continuity Management (BCM) systems in place, the standard offers...
May 8, 2015
So you’ve got a business continuity management plan in place, and it includes a work-area recovery (WAR) component. Now, of course, you need to make sure that the plan works. “When you physically move a group of people to a new site and expect them to be productive...
Apr 28, 2015
When a company finds itself on a burning platform, it’s in a desperate situation with no good choices. The burning platform metaphor derives from a real disaster in 1988, when an oil rig in the North Sea caught alight. The worst oil rig disaster to date, it resulted...
Apr 17, 2015
Dtex Systems recently did a review with several clients to look at the reasons why data loss prevention (DLP) fails. “Despite spending billions on DLP technology, enterprises still leak data every day. We repeatedly hear the same stories from companies struggling to...
Apr 15, 2015
It’s become almost trite to talk about how the cloud is transformative across a range of IT markets and business functions, says Bryan Balfe, enterprise account manager at CommVault. Disaster recovery (DR) has been around for decades, but typically fallen...