Business continuity metrics: How much can you afford to lose?   

When developing a disaster recovery plan, companies need to evaluate how fast they can get their businesses running again and how much data they can afford to lose. Bob Cramer, CEO of LiveVault Corp., offers tips on key metrics companies should use to make these decisions.

COMPUTERWORLD   

Redefining Disaster: Many CIOs have changed the way they think about disaster recovery. How about you? News Story by Mary K. Pratt, JUNE 20, 2005 (COMPUTERWORLD)

Computerworld   

Financial firms compare notes on disaster recovery 'I found out I'm not alone,' said a Huntington Bancshares official. " AUGUST 26, 2004 (COMPUTERWORLD) - Some of the nation's leading financial services companies said this week that their IT executives met earlier this year for the first time to share current disaster recovery schemes and discuss future technology recovery strategies. And what they found was that they had a lot in common -- including headaches."

Computerworld   

Survey: U.S. business, IT executives at odds on disaster recovery The differences were much narrower in Europe By Robert McMillan, IDG News Service

Computerworld   

Beyond UPS: Avoid the pitfalls that could leave you in the dark during an outage Advice by Randy MacCleary, Liebert North America JULY 20, 2004 (COMPUTERWORLD) " Having an appropriate uninterruptible power supply (UPS) is like having a good firewall. It's a vital component of a complete solution, but it isn't, in and of itself, a complete solution."

Computerworld   

One Year Later, IT Prepares for Next Disaster. News Story by Lucas Mearian, August 2, 2004 "siff Hirji, CIO at Ameritrade Holding Corp., said his business continuity plan for the company's Jersey City, N.J., data center worked flawlessly when the lights went out in much of the Northeast last August. Well, almost flawlessly. Ameritrade had 36 hours' worth of diesel fuel in its backup generators, and the main power grid wasn't fully restored for two days...."

ComputerWorld   

Poll: Disaster recovery tops storage priorities By Tan Ee Sze, Computerworld Singapore JUNE 13, 2003

(Computerworld) Study: Many companies lack disaster, continuity plans   

"A U.S.-led war in Iraq that could spawn new terrorist attacks in the U.S. could be less than two weeks away, but that hasn’t prompted many companies in the U.S. to invest adequately in disaster recovery, according to a new study released today by Dataquest Inc." (March 4, 2003)

Computerworld: Guam typhoon tests IT readiness, disaster recovery   

" A devastating and powerful supertyphoon struck Guam on Sunday, severely testing IT contingency plans for managers who have made survival on the remote island an art."

Continuity Central   

Global news, jobs and information portal for the business continuity industry. Whether you are a novice or a seasoned professional Continuity Central will meet your information needs.

Disaster Recovery Journal's Homepage   

Publishes a quarterly magazine and conducts conferences.

Disaster Resource Guide   

Business Continuity Strategy Design: How Far Apart Should Primary and Alternate Sites Be? By Alberto Jimenez

Disaster Resource Guide   

A comprehensive resource site with articles, book reviews, a directory of products and services, organizations, trade shows, a disaster resource glossary and online weather resources.

NoticeBored   

We supply creative internal communications materials for cost-effective corporate information security awareness programs. Different topics such as contingency planning, viruses and social engineering are covered each month - ideal for a rolling awareness program. We supply newsletters, briefings, presentations, posters, crosswords and loads more top quality content.

Six tips for IT in planning a business continuity strategy   

IT is a tool that can bring business continuity in alignment with business goals, writes Michael Croy, director of business continuity solutions at Forsythe Solutions Group Inc. He provides tips that IT departments can use to help close the business continuity gap. (May 4, 2004, Computerworld)

Vital Records Protection   

www.vitalrecordsprotection.org is an informational website designed to provide facts, statistics, commentary and articles devoted to the topic of protecting of vital records. After conducting extensive research into our markets, we learned that simple lack of awareness among the business community is the number one culprit leading to the inadequate protection of vital records.

Veritas   

The Veritas Disaster Recovery Research 2004 - Independent Market Research Report [IT Disaster Recovery Survey]

WebProNews   

Disaster Recovery: A Critical Business Issue by John Plain 2004-11-04 "In today's environment, the effects of a long-term operations outage could have catastrophic consequences to an organization, making contingency planning a critical business issue rather than exclusively a data processing issue.

WindowsSecurity.com   

Security Series: Disaster Recovery Tactics that Ensure Business Continuity (January 11, 2005) by Ricky M. Magalhaes

Yahoo! Finance   

U.S. Business and Technology Leaders at Odds on Disaster Readiness According to New Poll Monday July 14, 9:04 am ET EMC/RoperASW Opinion Poll Finds More Than Half of Senior I.T. Executives Feel Very Vulnerable to Losing Data in Disaste

ZDNet UK Tech Update   

Disaster recovery -- a checklist 14:21 Wednesday 23rd October 2002, by Rupert Goodwins "Most companies will not survive an unplanned outage of critical systems exceeding four days. That'd get your back up"

Alert Phone Messaging Systems and Service   

911Broadcast delivers notification phone messages throughout your community in the event of a disaster or emergency.

Always On Network   

Business Resilience Planning - Part 1 Including the concepts of Disaster Resilience Planning and Disaster Resilience What is Business Resilience Planning (BRP) and how does it differ from Business Continuity Planning (BCP)? Paul Dube [StratITech Consulting, LLC] POSTED: 10.14.04

Amerivault   

New Survey Reveals Inadequate Small Business Server Backup & Recovery Practices July 21, 2003, Waltham, MA According to a new national survey conducted by AmeriVault Corp., small companies most often have an employee take their server backup tape home, some storing it in a sock drawer and others on top of their refrigerator.

Banks' crisis plans weak: survey -- The Sydney Morning Herald   

By David Adams June 1, 2004 "More than 30 per cent of Australia's banks are unprepared for a significant disruption to their IT systems, such as a serious virus or act of terror, a recent university survey found."

Business continuity means monitoring the small stuff   

Business continuity means monitoring the small stuff "Maybe your systems appear to be running smoothly because you've tuned out the alarms." By Tom Yager, InfoWorld, February 20, 2004

CIO.COM - The CIO Exchange   

Eight Best Practices for Disaster Recovery: Three members of the CIO Executive Council offer their advice on building, testing and deploying disaster recovery plans.

Contingency Planning & Management   

It's Time to Revisit the Issue of Distances to Recovery Sites

Continuity Central   

Disaster Recovery Site Selection Matrix by Rumma Zahra, BCP Coordinator, Information Systems Department, State Bank of Pakistan An Excel-based spreadsheet utilised by the State Bank of Pakistan for initiating an enterprise wide disaster recovery project.

Data Recovery   

Data Recovery Services includes Hard Disk Recovery RAID Data Recovery Tape Recovery Memory Cards Recovery Media Conversion Flash Cards Recovery.

Data Recovery South   

We find your lost data. Specialist in data recovery for RAID, tape, hard drives, camera media cards etc. Free evaluation and, if we can't find your data, we don't charge.

Disaster Recovery Guidance - Free DR Tutorials and Articles   

Disaster Recovery Guidance.com offers free tutorials and articles covering the Disaster Recovery planning process for IT Infrastructure. Whether you are a system administrator, IT architect or DR manager, you'll find content here to help you put together a DR plan that will stand the test of a real disaster.

Disaster Research Center...Univeristy of Delaware Disaster Resource Guide   

Enterprise Systems   

Disaster Recovery: Balancing Performance and Availability Financial services giant finds happy medium between performance and availability with Big Blue’s new DR service for zSeries by Stephen Swoyer 7/27/2004

Imation Data Protection Survey Report   

An online survey of IT managers and directors was conducted in the continental United States. The respondents were screened to meet the following qualifications: * Directly responsible for network or data center tape storage and administration. * Manages a team responsible for network or data center tape storage and administration. * Holds a senior management position (CIO, VP, director, or manager). All companies represented in the survey have a network or data center tape backup and storage system. Survey respondents were selected from the Technology Advisory Board®, a worldwide Internet panel of over 25,000 scientists,engineers, information systems professionals, information technology executives, and technology executives. This database allows targeting of respondents with the job responsibilities required by this specific project.

InformationWeek   

Businesses Brace For Disruptions Oct. 18, 2004 By Martin J. Garvey Companies nationwide quickly took stock of disaster-preparedness procedures after the events of Sept. 11, 2001. Are companies as vigilant today about business continuity as they were 36 months ago? An InformationWeek Research study suggests they are.

IT Disaster Recovery Information Portal   

The IT Disaster Recovery Portal provides articles, news and a vendor and solution directory to assist in creating, testing and improving a disaster recovery plan. The site also features the 'downtime' blog which tracks stories of technology related outages of websites and corporate and government systems.

ITContinuity.com   

"The Portal for IT Resilience and Continuity."

mproving Disaster Recovery Without Breaking the Bank   

May 6, 2004 By Drew Robb "When FleetBoston Financial evaluated its disaster recovery responsiveness, the company received a shock."

Network World Fusion   

MasterCard factors 9/11 into disaster-recovery plan, By Ellen Messmer, Network World, 12/02/02. "MasterCard International, which last year opened a gleaming $160 million data-processing campus in Missouri, is gearing up for its next challenge: building a back-up and disaster-recovery site designed for the age of terrorism."

Planning for a disaster is half the work - Can you recover?   

Article by Phil Carter

PreEmpt, Inc.   

How far should an alternate facility be from the primary operations facility? Survey results, conducted by: PreEmpt, Inc., September 2005

Processor Magazine   

Keeping The Data Center Safe How To Win With Disaster Recovery Planning, by David Garrett, July 9, 2004 • Vol.26 Issue 28. "Are you ready for fires, floods, tornadoes, and blackouts? Is your fragile data center? Now more than ever, data is the heart and soul of your company, its very lifeblood. Losing it can be a crippling blow. Otherwise put, a disaster in your data center can put your company out of business—for good."

Raid Data Recovery   

With track record of one of the highest success rates in the industry global data recovery services company IntelliRecovery provides raid data recovery. No Data, No Charge Policy. Authorized by ALL major drive manufacturers.

Storage Pipeline   

Disaster Recovery Planning Grows, Slowly (September 14, 2004) By Storage Pipeline The good news is that more companies are taking seriously the need to plan for disaster recovery. The bad news is that only 38 percent have any kind of plan in place to keep them operating in the event of disaster or disruption, according to a Veritas-sponsored survey conducted by Dynamic Markets Ltd.

Storage Pipeline   

Enterprises Need Disaster Recovery Plans With Zero Downtime By Martin Garvey InformationWeek