The 2013 Business Continuity Management Survey (March 2013 – Ben Musgrave and Patrick Woodman) Executive Summary Disruptive weather – severe weather conditions remain the leading cause of disruption to organisations across the UK, for the fourth consecutive year. Impact of 2013 snow – managers in organisations affected by snow in early 2013 report an average…
The traditional concept of using a retention schedule to manage just “records” is no longer sufficient. This article offers practical advice for developing and implementing a modern, executable retention schedule based on the business value of all “information” – regardless of its location – in today’s complex business environment. Lorrie Luellig, J.D. Despite the digital…
Technology options are removing obstacles to disaster recovery protection With the technologies that are available to help speed, simplify and lower the cost of disaster recovery protection, your excuses for not having a plan are falling away. Server virtualisation and the cloud are making the task of disaster recovery protection considerably easier than in the…
The State of Global Disaster Recovery Preparedness ANNUAL REPORT 2014 The Disaster Recovery Preparedness Council publishes this annual report to provide an overview of the current state of disaster recovery preparedness for organizations worldwide. It contains the results of a ground-breaking online survey along with recommendations for improving disaster recovery preparedness based on best practices.…
Reconnect. Rebuild. Reimagine. Redeliver. Welcome to The Deloitte CIO Survey findings for 2013. This year, we present a truly international outlook, reporting on the responses of over 700 Chief Information Officers and other IT leaders from 36 countries across the Americas, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, Asia and Australia. The survey aims to provide an…
Opening the door to the C-suite The DNA of the CIO provides fresh insight into what it is to be a Chief Information Officer (CIO) today. The report is based on our survey of 301 senior IT professionals from Europe, North America, Asia, Latin America, Australia and South Africa. It also draws on in-depth interviews…
Mark Schlack, Sr. VP, Editorial, TechTarget Interesting and varied results of an exhaustive survey on European IT priorities for the coming year. Carried out by TechTarget and delivered in easy to consume graphical formats, provides good insight into the opinions of IT professionals on what’s hot for the coming year. Downloads 2014 IT Priorities Europe
For: Infrastructure & Operations Professionals by Rachel A. Dines, January 17, 2014 Key Takeaways Firms Look To Outsourced Disaster Recovery Services To Improve Resiliency Today’s world of 24×7 operations is forcing I&O professionals to reconsider how they run their resiliency programs. More and more, they use a mix of in-house and outsourced resiliency. Almost one…
For: Infrastructure & Operations Professionals by Rachel A. Dines, January 17, 2014 Key Takeaways Business Technology Resiliency Is A High Priority, But Budgets Remain Flat In today’s world of 24×7 business requirements, few companies can afford downtime, yet most are not allocating additional funds to prevent it. Traditional models for recovery are proving too expensive,…
A Custom Technology Adoption Profile Commissioned By Cisco Systems Corporate Mobility Momentum Accelerates Among Enterprises The pace of enterprises deploying corporate mobility initiatives has accelerated. Enterprise IT executives are focused on supporting a fragmented array of mobile devices, applications, and operating systems to address the needs of employees. Corporate mobility momentum will continue as a…
White Paper 165, by Wendy Torell, Schneider Electric Data center systems or subsystems that are preassembled in a factory are often described with terms like prefabricated, containerized, modular, skid-based, pod-based, mobile, portable, self-contained, all-inone, and more. There are, however, important distinctions between the various types of factory-built building blocks on the market. This paper proposes…
Symantec Corporation: Volume 18 Symantec has established some of the most comprehensive sources of Internet threat data in the world through the Symantec™ Global Intelligence Network, which is made up of approximately 69 million attack sensors and records thousands of events per second. This network monitors threat activity in over 157 countries and territories through…