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How to create an effective business continuity plan

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A solid business continuity plan is one of those foundational elements. Every business should have the mindset that they will face a disaster, and every business needs a plan to address the different potential scenarios,” says Goh Ser Yoong, head of compliance at Advance.AI What is a business continuity plan?

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Resilient data backup and recovery is critical to enterprise success

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Even worse, one-third of companies that paid the ransom still didn’t get their data back, and the average downtime for ransomware victims was two weeks. This data doesn’t even take into account other threats to business continuity, ranging from natural disasters to the accidental deletion of data.

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Veeam’s new pitch to CIOs: Outcome-based backup and recovery offerings

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Veeam is all set to shift its selling strategy to appeal to CIOs with performance guarantees that could penalize the data replication, backup and recovery company if it fails to meet agreed-on outcomes. If it is a vendor in backup and recovery area, historically, you would simply charge for a backup solution.

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Business Continuity Basics: Management, Planning and Testing

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In our previous blogs, we discussed at length about business impact analysis and business continuity and disaster recovery , and how these concepts are a part of business continuity in general. What Is Business Continuity? Why Is Business Continuity Management Important?

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What is BCDR? Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery Explained

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In the event of a disruption, businesses must be able to quickly recover mission-critical data, restore IT systems and smoothly resume operations. A robust business continuity and disaster recovery (BCDR) plan is the key to having confidence in your ability to recover quickly with minimal disruption to the business.

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8 big IT failures of 2023

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IT provides the plumbing for just about every company in existence today. We’ve gathered eight instances of big tech failures that struck companies and other organizations in 2023. And because the incumbent companies have been around for so long, many are running IT systems with some elements that are years or decades old.

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Business Impact Analysis: An Integral Part of Business Continuity Planning

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IT teams in most organizations are familiar with disaster recovery and business continuity processes. However, some may not be aware of the importance of conducting a business impact analysis (BIA). A BIA is one of the most important elements of a business continuity plan. Business Impact. Dependencies.