Hi Ranga, Here's a quick initial response, I'm sure others on this email list can expand. 1. In the past we used to talk more about Disaster Recovery (DR). The...
The following article says that the Availability Services spin-off is now "off." This was confirmed to me yesterday evening by one of their customers who had...
Dear members, what follows is a rough translation of a recent posting on a Spanish-speaking BC interest group that I though worthwhile sharing. This is a...
Ranga, 1- I don't understand your question...But the history comes from the "jurassic" computers, where the outage in processing was a disaster... 2- BCM is...
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Guy's I really need some input from you all. I still can’t convince my management on which procedure should we use to complete our BCP Plan. Some of them...
Hi Patricia, Many thanks for your Help, its very useful for me. Acutally I am doing MBA Information Technology in coventy university. I am doing dissertation...
It's a little hard to answer the question without knowing what you are dealing with - equipment, people, processes, etc. but in general: Use the existing...
hay Othman, What i understand from your question is, you already have set of procedures and some ppl are suggesting to develop new set of procedures. And your...
Hi ! The history tells me that sometimes the "old" way is the best way. Other times, new procedures are needed. The question is easily solved if you plan tests...
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I work in a large corporation in which Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery are broken up in pieces. The Business Units have Business Continuity, the...
The only reason IT exists is to serve the clients. Start by finding out your clients' requirements. When you know the client requirements, develop a SLA*s and...
CML already has VOIP routing software in their ECS1000 format. Be well, stay safe. Charles S. Thomas Managing Director CACH International Ltd Co Business...
Have you gone through organization wide Business Impact Analysis. Do you know about how important your application is to organization operations and whats...
Do you need the BIA with RTO and RPO (recovery time/points objetives and points for all process. The critical list of aplications to ensure those a process end...
... snip ... I have received a number of replies and they are helpful. The most helpful was to refine my question. What I am looking for is more IT centric:...
The two responses from John Glenn and Mike Faithfull make the point that business continuity is THE driver of recovery requirements for IT. I agree ...
In that case, you need to sit with/interview the IT SMEs _or_ RT*M for the relevant hdw and s/w. The problem you will - will, not may - encounter is that the...
I couldn't agree more with Kathleen. It's not just in Business Continuity that IT has to remember it is there to serve rather than drive the business, but also...
I agree and raise you a couple! In my world, the Business is responsible for ensuring that they can recover. When they do their Risk Assessments, they indicate...
You seem to have been swamped with extremely helpful discussion and explanations with regard to the overall responsibility for business continuity management,...
Hello all, I am interested in obtaining the services of a company to implement a BC Plan for the business units other than IT. I have conducted all of the...
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Hi all, as a provider of critical power services i'm always amazed that businesses are wary of preventative maintenance and testing of their critical power...
Tony, Sadly, you're right - I've seen it before too. However, that's usually not the engineer talking but the accountant. Most of engineers (with good...
I would suggest reworking the contracts next time they are up for renewal and changing your sales contract to include testing of a type as part of the...
Dear all, I am looking into whether or not our organisation should do anything specific to plan for the possibility of an influenza pandemic / outbreak of...
Chris The company I work for - Nortel includes pandemics in our test scenarios. There is quite a lot we do as an global organisation for Business Continuity if...
