Business Continuity Planning
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HP, ITE offer SMBs biz continuity service
News IT vendor collaborates with Singapore's Institute of Technical Education to provide BCP consultancy to smaller firms, and train students in the field.
Tags: SMB, Contingency planning, Disaster recovery, Data backup, disaster recovery, Hewlett-Packard Co., Singapore, Storage, Small And Medium Business, business continuity planning, business continuity
Outages cost large firms US$288K
News update Over 90 percent of firms worldwide had to execute their disaster recovery plan last year, new report notes. Downtime in Asia costs US$150,000 on average.
Tags: Data backup, disaster recovery, Disaster recovery, Service level management, Disaster Recovery, Plan, Asia, Disaster Recovery Planning, Virtual Environment, IT Professional, systems engineering
Right time to ensure efficiency of BCP spend
News Companies should work at getting better returns on business continuity planning expenditure, instead of cutting expense on such activities during a downturn.
Tags: Data backup, disaster recovery, Crisis communications, Mobile, Backup, Forbes, Cell Phone, Singapore, business continuity planning, ROI, business continuity
Sample influenza business continuity plan
Blogs My colleague and fellow IAEM Asia member Chew Lip Heng and I started writing a sample corporate incident action plan (IA...
Templates published for mass fatality incidents
Blogs Many hospitals are unprepared to deal with large numbers of dead bodies--a mass fatality incident, or MFI--that would re...
Emergency response the weakest link in organizational resilience
Blogs I think of organizational resilience as a chain that links security, emergency management (EM), disaster recovery, busin...
UN audit finds weakness in peacekeepers' IT
News IT systems for UN peacekeeping logistics were insecure last year, according to an internal UN report, but some secure transmission standards are being deliberately avoided due to their bandwidth requirements.
Tags: Authentication and encryption, Hacking, Firewalls, Defense/military, Disaster Recovery, Report, IT Security, business continuity planning, business continuity, Defense/military
UK firms not ready for hack attacks, flu, bad weather
News Fewer than half, or 38 percent, of respondents in a U.K. survey said their organization has plans in place to cope with business disruption.
Tags: Business Strategies & Functions, Data backup, disaster recovery, Organization, Telecommunications, Workforce, Survey, Attack, business continuity planning, business continuity, U.K.
Asia earthquakes heighten BCP need
Blogs It's hard not to notice the earthquake risk around the Pacific Rim these days. I'm not sure if the risk is actually high...
Feel the earth move? Think BCP
Blogs weekly roundup For the first time, this week, I felt the earth move under my feet right here in Singapore, where natural...
Secure funding for disaster recovery
Insight No matter what industry you’re in, getting money for disaster recovery (DR) and high availability is tough. What can you do to improve the chances of getting your boss's signature on the dotted line?
Why IT can't go it alone
Techguide This month, we're debunking some common myths about disaster recovery strategies. Last time, we discussed how tape backups are rarely sufficient as a company's sole DR solution. This time, let's focus on a popular misconception that the IT department can properly handle business continuity planning (BCP) on its own.
Why you shouldn't rely solely on remote availability
Techguide In recent newsletters, we discussed how tape backups are rarely sufficient as a company's sole DR solution, and we've exposed the popular misconception that the IT department can properly handle business continuity planning (BCP) on its own.
Increase your chances of getting budget approval
Techguide In recent newsletters, we discussed common myths about disaster recovery strategies, including why neither tape backups nor remote-only failover operations are sufficient as a sole DR solution. We also discussed why the IT department can't handle business continuity planning (BCP) on its own. Let us look at one more popular disaster recovery myth.
Managing UOB's critical IT pipes
Insight IT chief Susan Hwee keeps vigil over the United Overseas Bank's IT systems and operations, all of which have become an integral part of the business.
Tags: IT Management, IT budgeting, Budgeting/cost control
