Identifying Business Continuity Best Practices
Posted on | December 6, 2011 | No Comments
Business continuity is a highly complex organisational endeavour. Even though there are continuity practices common to most business organisations, continuity practices differ among industries and even among organisations within an industry. Business continuity best practices involve identifying more structured approaches that would quantify risks and enable an organisation to implement procedures, strategies and tactics that ensures the best continuity of business. Here are some guidelines on the business continuity best practices:
Areas
Areas in continuity planning should be established, developed, regularly tested, and updated. These areas include strategic planning, risk assessment, back-up plans and work processes, continual testing and industry-specific best practices. Each of these areas should be present in the overall plan. Read more
Disaster Recovery Costs and How to Avoid Them
Posted on | November 28, 2011 | No Comments
When a bad economy is not letting up, it’s easy to forgo disaster recovery equipment or measures to save on associated costs. Come to think of it, disaster doesn’t happen daily, don’t they? However, should a disaster does occur, do you foresee the consequences of making your business vulnerable to the worst? Often, disaster recovery costs are highest among businesses with no safety-net from manmade or natural disasters.
Although disaster recovery costs your company some resources, most often than not, the ROI is often quite high in businesses prepared for disasters compared with the vulnerable ones. In the past, many companies shied away from full-fledged solutions because implementing business continuity usually meant doubling the costs of hardware, software, data center fees, connectivity and many other elements.
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Simple but Sure Holistic Software
Posted on | November 21, 2011 | No Comments
Business continuity planning should enable your business organisation to meet challenges relating to massive data growth and resource constraints. You should invest in a cost-effective but high quality performing disaster recovery plan software which has the capacity with a tiered storage portfolio that aligns the right type of storage which involves flash, disk and tape storages with your environment needs.
- Holistic Approach – Your disaster recovery plan software should have a holistic approach to the manner in which it addresses tiered storage needs, streamlines and accelerates the application-to-archive process for both structured and unstructured data. Read more
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Formulating the Business Continuity Strategy
Posted on | November 16, 2011 | No Comments
Determining or formulating the business continuity strategy that you will use involves looking at the general issues relating to how you ensure that the ability of your organisation to deliver services and products within the business continuity programme is protected. You should know what activity continuity options are available to you. These are the tactics you use in ensuring that activity continuity of your delivery of services or products are supported.
- Mitigating the Impacts – Where possible, it is important to put in place some measure that will reduce the possibility of incidents happening or to mitigate the effect if ever they fail. Cost-effectiveness is a bonus factor; however, it should not be regarded as a fitting substitute for carrying out an appropriate business continuity strategy. Read more
Two Basic Disaster Recovery Certification You Can Qualify For
Posted on | November 10, 2011 | No Comments
Freelance individuals and company commissioned employees can get certification as business recovery professionals. The process of disaster recovery certification involves two parts which are the verification of knowledge and the confirmation of experience.
The first step involves passing a qualifying examination to see to it that the candidate has enough knowledge on the subject matter. The passing grade is 75%. While the second step involves the confirmation of the candidate’s experience through application of the knowledge. The successful applicant’s certification will be retained by earning continuing education points within a specified period.
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The Scope of Business Continuity Planning
Posted on | November 7, 2011 | No Comments
Disaster recovery and business continuity are two related terms, but the coverage of one has a clear distinction from the other. Business continuity planning refers to an ongoing process initiated and funded by the senior management of an organisation. It is done to ensure that the necessary steps are taken to identify the impact of potential losses, maintain viable recovery strategies and recovery plans, and continue the organisation’s operations in the aftermath of a disaster. A disaster refers to an event either man-made or driven by nature which threatens the operations and security of a company or organisation. This can range from a an earthquake and its resulting fires, a terrorist attack or a virus wreaking havoc to a company’s computers and information system.
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Basic Disaster Recovery for Servers
Posted on | November 3, 2011 | No Comments
Every computer has the possibility to bog down. Viruses, malicious attacks, malfunctions are just few possible reasons for your computer to do so. With the bogging down of a computer comes the temporary or permanent loss of files and the corresponding effects to the owner’s activities. These activities include businesses. But you can protect yourself from these disasters.
Through server disaster recovery, you can protect your computer files and your business activities from temporary and permanent loss. Here are things you should know about server disaster recovery: Read more
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How to Implement a Business Continuity System
Posted on | November 2, 2011 | No Comments
Earthquakes, construction disasters, government protest actions and internet hacking headline the news recently. These headlines are disasters which are a kind, just one kind, of business interruption which are addressed by the business continuity system.
So just how is a business continuity system set up and carried out. Here are the steps:
- Location Map – A business continuity system should have a location map that includes all of the business’ or organisation’s branches and support facilities. Location and staff details of the branches and facilities should be included also.
- LOB – The business organisation’s lines of business or LOB, their locations, functions and interconnections should be determined and identified. Read more
Advantages of Exchange Disaster Recovery
Posted on | November 1, 2011 | No Comments
Exchange disaster recovery is very important among disaster recovery software systems because it saves a lot of time, processes and memory space:
- Time to Restore Individual Mailbox – A sufficient exchange disaster recovery cuts down the time needed to restore software set ups. With this slashed down recovery time, it is possible to restore mail items from a previous full back up directly into the production exchange server or directly into a new or existing PST file. In the process, the need for a recovery server and additional procedures to import mail back into the exchange server.
- Backups of an Individual Mailbox – With the exchange disaster recovery, you will no longer need to backup individual mailboxes because they can be directly restored from an electronic data base file. Read more
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Make Your Business Continuity Plan Interesting To All
Posted on | October 31, 2011 | No Comments
By using a business continuity plan example or more, you can make your own interesting to every person in your organisation. This way, each personnel will be interested, able to learn and appreciate business continuity planning, particularly your own organisation’s one.
Here are ways in making your own plan interesting to all levels in your organisation through the use of a business continuity plan example or two, or more:
- Learn from Others’ Experiences – You can use another organisation’s response plan as a business continuity plan example. There are industry and professional associations which share their response plans to colleagues in the industry and profession. Just visit their websites and you can find their response plans there. Other organisations or associations ask for a few of your company’s industry or profession information before they allow access to their response plans. Do not be worried or intimidated; they are only confirming your authenticity and even would like to have a mutually beneficial contact with you. Using concrete past experiences in presenting response planning will be interesting to your personnel, especially those in the lower level of your organisation. They will see and understand its substance. Read more
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