Contingency Planning
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Eight ways to better disaster recovery planning
Insight Effective disaster recovery starts with a good disaster recovery plan. Here are eight tips to make your plan a better one.
Sony's brave Sir Howard
Insight With the PS3 and Blu-ray by his side, CEO Howard Stringer says Sony is set to vanquish its foes and keep consumers happy.
SMBs need to work on business recovery
News Business protection practitioners urge small and midsized companies to drop the "once bitten, twice shy" mentality, and start building their disaster recovery plans or risk shutting down.
Tags: Data backup, disaster recovery, Business Strategies & Functions, Disaster recovery, Best strategies, Business planning, SMB
MyDoom downs SCO site
News The MyDoom computer virus knocked out SCO Group's Web site on Sunday, and the company expects the massive denial-of-service attack to continue until Feb. 12.
Tags: Viruses and worms
Gartner: IT budgets flat despite economic jitters
News The latest survey by the analyst firm shows roughly two-thirds of global IT budgets for 2008 are still unchanged.
Tags: IT budgeting
Crime gangs go phishing in Australia
News The past several weeks have seen a rash of "phishing" expeditions, in which fraudulent spam has been sent out attempting to trick the recipients into providing their bank account details.
Hotmail, FedEx infected by Code Red
News Microsoft confirms that some servers running its free MSN Hotmail service were hit by the Code Red virus, and FedEx says the worm slowed some deliveries to a crawl.
Sino-Japanese tension threatens global IT industry
News Businesses should develop contingency plans to reduce dependency on northeast Asia in anticipation of unstable relations between China and Japan, says Gartner.
Tags: Business security, Business planning, Politics
WorldCom contracts under U.S. scrutiny
News The accounting scandal prompts U.S. government agencies to review the telecommunications company's billions of dollars in federal contracts.
AT&T ads target WorldCom woes
News An ad campaign strikes an ironic chord as the telecom giant woos WorldCom customers while announcing a US$12.7 billion quarterly loss.
Mobile virus no real threat for now
News The lack of standards in mobile operating systems makes it difficult for mobile viruses to have a widespread impact, say industry observers.
Tags: Handhelds, Mobile platforms/communications, Bluetooth, Viruses and worms, Symbian, Antivirus software
WorldCom clients advised not to run yet
News With WorldCom teetering on the brink of bankruptcy, the company's jittery customers are being advised hang tight for now but have a backup plan ready.
Hong Kong futures exchange outage was Y2K-Related
News The failure of a computer system of the Hong Kong Futures Exchange (HKFE) on January 4, 2000 was Y2K-related, according to a Hong Kong Government official.
Uncertainty slows Malaysia's IT industry growth
News Malaysia's tech industry is projected to grow less than 10 percent in 2005, a figure that is lower than the previous year, according to an industry report.
Microsoft reins in Longhorn for 2006 launch
News It's aiming to release the Windows update by the first half of 2006--which means scaling back some of its more ambitious plans for features.
Tags: Longhorn
