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 departmental...

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," says Michael...

When it comes to modern data protection, not all data should be treated the same way. Long gone are the days of just dumping a bunch of files onto a tape overnight and sending it to the vault, wites Mark Bentkower, CISSP, director of systems engineering: ASEAN at...

Growing numbers of organisations in the private and public sectors have business continuity and disaster recovery plans in place to ensure organisational resilience in the face of disaster. A few organisations fully understand what events should trigger the invocation...

The truth facing all businesses operating in today's market is that because of the advent of technology and systems, there are several ways to manage resources. However, while security and access control are front of mind for decision makers as they consider ICT...

Thanks to smartphones and tablets, the use of social media has exploded. For many people, social media platforms are now much more than a way to keep in touch with friends and family, or to find out what's hot--they are also a way to be alerted to events that could...

In a market driven by data and the need to source, store and retrieve information in realtime, the ability to audit and control this data is paramount. The reason, say technology and cloud service experts, is to ensure that data can be protected and exploited, and...

For organisations within the transportation sector, the use of intelligent predictive maintenance platforms - connected to a variety of structured and unstructured data sources - can unleash some powerful business advantages. Case studies show that maintenance costs...

Executives are ever-vigilant in finding ways to cut costs and increase efficiencies. In their quest, they have realised that decommissioned IT assets are an unnecessary cost and have potential economic value. The influx of new technology creates a corresponding and...

The cliché is that when times are tight, marketing budgets are the first to feel the scissors. In reality, business continuity is even more likely to suffer from budget cuts: after all, the money-men always say, the risk of a major fire or an ICT meltdown is remote....

As business continuity starts to take its rightful place on the boardroom agenda, companies need to ensure that they are taking advantage of the standards for business continuity management that have emerged in the past two years. "The development of robust standards...