ICT CONTINUITY: BASIC RESOURCES

In this section you can find an overview of all the basic ICTcontinuity resources added to this website recently.

Maintaining ICT availability and resiliency in 2015 and beyond
In this article Patrick Hubbard highlights emerging areas where greater understanding is required to enable organizations to maintain current levels of ICT availability and resiliency.
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Go back to basics to avoid network outages
Many organizations fail to implement some simple processes that can help reduce the number and severity of network outages says Joel Dolisy.
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Disruptive IT trends that business continuity managers need to be aware of
Ian Kilpatrick describes five trends that may impact data protection strategies during 2013.
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Insourcing after outsourcing: how to handle the business continuity issues associated with IT migrations
Over the past six months, a trend has arisen for organizations to bring their IT services back in-house. The resulting IT migrations bring their own business continuity issues, as Ian Masters explains.
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Enterprise data recovery myths
Kroll Ontrack has published a listing of what it views as the top five enterprise data recovery myths.
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How to secure boardroom buy-in for backup and IT disaster recovery
David Blackman offers some tips for success in this area.
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Five tips for overcoming the challenges of backups in virtual environments
With the rate of virtualized servers being added to IT environments, organizations are facing new challenges in how to adequately protect data and ensure its recoverability without backup operations limiting the performance of the host machines.
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Selecting a reliable NAS solution
When it comes to network attached storage devices, business continuity starts with selecting the right solution.
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More than a plan: establishing a disaster recovery program
Glen Bricker overviews ISO 27031 and ITIL IT Service Continuity Management and provides some pointers for choosing between these two ICT guidelines.
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Tips for choosing disaster recovery technologies for your organization
When organizations are assessing IT requirements for business continuity purposes, it is important that they understand the true deliverability of various solutions on the market.
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Taking an intelligent approach to data
Separating production and non-production data can make business continuity much more efficient but how can non-production data be identified? By Richard Fine.
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Enterprise wide backup: a checklist
Data management is entering a new era and Alexander Eiríksson provides some tips on how to make the most of new opportunities.
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The big virtualization win: backup, restore and disaster recovery
Making the most of virtualization for business continuity.
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Building a storage-efficient data center
Advice from Len Rosenthal.
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Mainframe thoughts
2011 will be the year when the UK mainframe community abandons its 1980s-style tape technologies, says John Taffinder.
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Business continuity, the cloud and the Mad Hatter
By Paul Humphreys.
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Business continuity and public cloud computing
Jim Kennedy looks at the different types of public cloud computing and lists the questions that are required for business continuity due diligence.
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D2D2D is practical, possible and in all likelihood more affordable than D2D2T
Says Jerome M. Wendt.
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Business continuity: laying down the right foundations to build a solid strategy
What can be considered a thorough BC strategy by some can be seen as lacking by others.
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If your head’s in the cloud, keep your feet on the ground
Cloud models and their associated risks. By Ruvi Kitov.
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