Are The Words "Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery Planning" Rolling Off Your Lips? by Renee Rich
It might be more fun to talk about those those nifty designer business checks that are helping to solidify your branding efforts at the next staff meeting, but what really should be rolling off your lips if you want to be taken seriously are the words “business continuity and disaster recovery... Once plans for business continuity and disaster recovery have been made, the entire company needs to be educated as to what to do in the event of a disaster. ... Ask any company that has experienced a disaster, and they will all tell you that disaster recovery planning is vital to maintaining...

Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery - Reducing Your Risk Profile by Robert Mahood
Like all plans, there is an ultimate goal to achieve. The goal in a business continuity plan is simply that: to continue your business in the face of a disaster or a disruption. A business continuity plan is not just for a disaster. It’s also for the smaller things in life, like your friendly... Reducing your risk profile through a well thought out business continuity and disaster recovery plan is an effective way to do so. ... Some of the more authoritative sources are: Disaster Recovery International (www.drii.org), Disaster Recovery Journal ( www.drj.com ), and Global Continuity (...

Want To Beat The Odds? Disaster Recovery Planning is Essential by Renee Rich
Statistics show two out of five businesses go out of business within five years of experiencing a major disaster. These statistics are staggering. Even if the business survives the initial attack or natural disaster, it typically leaves the business so devastated that long term survival is not... Plan for the disaster, and your business can recover with the least amount of losses; fail to plan, and you could be out of commission for weeks, even months, or in 40% of the cases…forever. ... Business of all sizes should develop a business continuity plan, and test it on a regular basis.

Do You Have The One Key Ingredient Necessary For Disaster Recovery? by Renee Rich
It is not rocket science, we all know that we should have a disaster recovery plan in place for our business regardless of its size. When disaster strikes, it seldom discriminates on the size of the company. Every business is vulnerable. Whether the disaster is a hurricane, tornado or the latest... It is virtually impossible, to be organized and strategically think through and implement a disaster recovery plan while in the throws of a disaster. ... This is business continuity in a nutshell, and business continuity is becoming more and more important as we move into the new millennium.

Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery - The Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery Plan by Robert Mahood
Essentially, the plan addresses the who, what, where, why and when of recovery. Goal number one is to reduce the risk profile of the business. Goal two is to be well prepared so the impact of any disruption is minimized. Overall, the objective of the plan is to effectively minimize the chances... The "what" is a clear, detailed, but focused business continuity and disaster recovery plan, a plan that provides a successful road map to minimize business interruption and maximize business continuity.

Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery - Selecting A Business Continuity Strategy by Robert Mahood
The risk analysis and business impact analysis have identified risks to key business functions. Also, the potential impacts and probabilities of these risks as well as the costs to prevent or mitigate damages and the time to recover will have been established. ... Many companies associate disaster recovery and business continuity only with IT and communications functions and miss other critical areas that can seriously impact their business. ... The primary goals are to maintain business continuity in the face of a disruption or disaster, to recover key business functions quickly and to...

Hurricanes: Disaster Prevention - Recovery by Mario Ramis
Before the next time you hear hurricane --think inland flooding! Conduct another walk-through of your organization's business continuity plan. Look for business and computing changes since the plan was originally implemented, last tested, or revised. ... Mark your emergency flashlight positions on a floor plan that is kept off site (preferably as a part of your systems continuity and disaster recovery plan). ... They will also probably want to review your business continuity and disaster recovery plans.

Mystery of the Unknown! by Dina Safar
Your Work place is no longer available, disaster has struck, and time is money! How many times have you heard these statements? It is a nightmare for CIOs and IT directors to have to explain downtime to their CEO and CFO. For many CEOs and CFOs, what was important yesterday is no longer valid... is a system integrator that specializes in off site disaster recovery, business continuity, and 7x24x365 solutions from the hardware and software side, Storage Area Networking (SAN), high Performance Fiber Raid Solution, Server-Less Enterprise Backups.

Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery - Business Impact Analysis by Robert Mahood
Business impact analysis is a critical part of the business continuity planning process. This step quantifies data and gets into the real world issue of potential losses that can negatively impact your business. It is used to understand the most important impacts and how to best protect your... Business continuity and the business impact analysis is more focused on keeping the business up and running and less focused on recovery after a disaster. ... Once the adequacy of security and controls is evaluated and critical business functions and outage times are defined, the business continuity...

Disaster Recovery Services: Questions to Ask of a Service Provider by C Seagrave
With increasing dependence on systems availability, the recovery of your core servers, applications and network are fundamental in the event of a disaster. In fact, as organisations rely more and more on ‘anytime, anywhere’ connectivity, ‘systems availability’ has become synonymous with... Business continuity plans and disaster recovery services ensure continuity and viability.” ( Disaster Recovery Plans and Systems are Essential , September 2001) This article discusses your considerations when selecting a service provider to deliver disaster recovery services – a partner on whom the very...