Disaster Recovery Planning
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Disaster recovery core to 'sound' IT plan
News Proper disaster recovery plans need to be an integral part of businesses, especially given the challenging economic times, says new Acronis CEO Jason Donahue.
Tags: Data backup, disaster recovery, Business Strategies & Functions, Infrastructure/architecture management, Disaster Recovery, Backup, Disaster Recovery Planning, Acronis, Hong Kong, De-duplication, Symantec Corp.
F-Secure: 12 million 'active' bots worldwide
News In a new report, the Finnish security vendor says botnet activity stepped up worldwide in 2008, and potential numbers of infected zombie PCs are "staggering".
Tags: Antivirus software, PC security, Disaster Recovery, Malware, F-Secure Corp., Bot, Disaster Recovery Planning, IP, Computer, Server
S'pore SMBs see disaster recovery plans as luxury
News Local small and midsize firms diligent in data backup but still need to do more to safeguard business and customer data, survey finds.
Tags: Disaster recovery, Security, Business, Disaster Recovery, Survey, H1N1 flu, Disaster Recovery Planning, Singapore, Small And Medium Business, Indonesia
Zap unwanted formatting in Word
Techguide You can spend a lot of time formatting content in a Word document and then even more time trying to get rid of it!
Tags: Microsoft Office, Microsoft Office, Customization Tool, Microsoft Excel Microsoft Excel 2010, Excel 2010, October Sale, C, Microsoft Corp., Sales, Microsoft Excel 2007
Businesses urged to devise digital-forensics plans
News A report from the Information Assurance Advisory Council says, businesses need to have a forensics strategy to support their position in legal proceedings.
Tags: Security Management, Business security, Disaster Recovery, Evidence, Security, Organization, Disaster Recovery Planning, London School of Economics, Computer, professor
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, Virtual Environment, IT Professional, Disaster Recovery Planning, systems engineering
Asia braces for business disruptions
Insight Companies in Asia are seeking to mitigate risks from security breaches, power outages and natural disasters.
Tags: Disaster recovery, Data backup, disaster recovery
City firms warned on disaster recovery plans
Techguide How risky is it for financial institutions to have their backup sites in London?
Don't forget about hardware when creating your DR strategy
Techguide Disaster recovery planning is a multistep, complex process, and it can be easy to neglect some of the basics during the planning and implementation phases. One such example is hardware, an area that organizations often overlook, but that's necessary for a DR solution to succeed.
Dealing with Level 2 disasters: Network intruders
Techguide Mike Talon describes the scope of recovering from network threats and intrusions. Fast action is required to save your data and protect it from further harm.
Tags: Security, IDS (Intrusion Detection Systems), Security applications/tools
DR tip: separate servers from applications
Insight You can save money on your disaster recovery budget and achieve more efficient failover systems if you carefully consider the relationship between apps and servers.
Tags: Business Strategies & Functions
Portable phone number benefits
Insight Beyond just convenience, Wireless Local Number Portability (WLNP) can save enterprises money--by letting them standardize one a single carrier service platform.
Malaysia SMEs lack BC and DR plans
News Small and midsize enterprises in Malaysia are digging their own graves by not preparing for business disruption, industry observers say.
Tags: Disaster recovery, Data backup, disaster recovery, Business
Brace against outsourcing
Insight Outsourcing and layoffs in the IT industry are a fact of life. While you cannot necessarily prevent being laid off, you can take steps to mitigate the impact when it happens.
Tags: IT outsourcing, Workplace, Outsourcing
Proactive networking
Insight Expert's view Behind our daily barrage of hacker attacks, announcements of new viruses and worms, and frequent risk of downtime is an opportunity. This is your opportunity to step away from the noise and take steps to build a more proactive network security model for your organization.
Tags: Networking, Network security
