Contingency Planning
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Effects of damaged cables continue
News Issues from damaged SMW4 cable system that took out Internet and phone communications last week still persist, with Singapore now apparently affected.
Tags: LANs and WANs, Contingency planning, SingTel, Asia, India, Singapore, Europe, Cable, Traceroute, Contingency planning
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
Inoculate your business against bird flu
Insight Companies in Asia discuss some measures they are taking to minimize the impact of the deadly flu virus, should the situation become critical.
Tags: Business security, Data backup, disaster recovery, Disaster recovery, Business planning, SMB
Reviewing pandemic plans has just become job #1
Techguide With the Influenza A hitting over 60 countries, IT managers need to step up contingency planning. One CIO shares his organization's experience and plans.
Tags: Contingency planning, Remote management, VPNs, Event, Plan, public health, remote access, Contingency planning, VPNs, Server
BCP makes it to TV
Blogs You'll enjoy this 30-second television advertisement from Fidelity Investments that illuminates the benefits of continge...
Senate warns of small chemical firms' Y2K status
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Does the U.K. ID cards scheme have a 'self-destruct' button?
News "All security aspects" of the country's National Identity Registry will be subject to and be required to pass a security accreditation process before its launch, says a minister.
Tags: Data security, Security
APEC: Pacific Rim nations agree on regional Y2K planning
News he Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) meetings in New Zealand brought together leaders of the Pacific Rim nations to make resolutions regarding the final stages of regional Y2K planning.
As clock ticks, firms worldwide race to beat Y2K
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Inoculate your business against bird flu
Techguide Tech companies in Asia are bracing themselves for the possibility of an avian flu pandemic as the human death toll rises around the world.
Broker's crisis communication is broken
Blogs The online and in-house securities trading systems of Phillip Securities in Singapore crashed on Tuesday, Jan. 15. The o...
Plan ahead for critical resource contingencies
Techguide Tom Mochal provides some examples of where you should plan ahead in a project.
Tags: Data backup, disaster recovery, Disaster recovery
Plan ahead for critical resource contingencies
Techguide Tom Mochal provides some examples of where you should plan ahead in a project.
Asia's cables on the blink
Blogs On Dec. 26, 2006, the Hengchun earthquake near Taiwan was actually two shocks within 5 minutes of each other at 8:30 p.m...
Tuning out supply chain risk
Blogs Could a typhoon in Manila affect what teenagers in Minneapolis find in their Christmas stockings? I sure think so. A ...
