Business Continuity
306 Stories
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
Virtualization: Get the contract right
Insight perspective Virtualization promises many business benefits--but only if you structure the agreement correctly. Lawyer Mark O'Conor offers some advice.
Tags: Virtualization, Software licensing, Cost control, Security, business continuity, intellectual property, Hardware, service provider, agreement, pricing strategy
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
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...
Oracle to buy GoldenGate Software
News Company acquiring provider of real-time data integration software for an undisclosed amount. GoldenGate tech will help customers pull timely data from different sources.
Tags: Business applications, Databases, Sun Microsystems Inc., data integration, business continuity, San Francisco, financial, Oracle Corp., enterprise software, Thomson Reuters Corp.
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...
Xerox picks HCL in US$100M deal
News The contract will see HCL providing data center hosting and migration, virtualization, consolidation and storage architecture services across Europe and North America.
Tags: Data centers, Data backup, disaster recovery, Xerox Corp., Architecture Services, storage architecture service, Outsourcing Company, document management company, Document Management, business continuity, information management
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.
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
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...
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
Cloud could be 'more important than the PC'
News The beginning of cloud computing may have greater impact on public sector IT than PC revolution did in the past, says U.K. body for public sector IT professionals.
Tags: Web 2.0, Business applications, Web-based Application, IT Manager, IT Professional, cost savings, Cloud Computing, business continuity, Socitm Insight, public sector
Singapore BCM Standard SS540: TR19 with a facelift
Blogs In July 2008, I wrote that Technical Reference 19 (TR 19:2005), Singapore's proposed international standard for business...
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...
Thai IT sector counts cost of strike
News Thailand's IT sector's losses as a result of the recent week-long Don Mueang and Suvarnabhumi airports closure are estimated to be US$28 million a day.
Tags: Investments, Hardware, Security, Disaster Recovery, Conference, Thailand, Airport Closure, business continuity, software, job
