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Business Continuity as a Business Strategy

Disaster Recovery Journal

A recent trip to a local grocery store demonstrated organizational understanding of business continuity. The situation was not a disaster but a business disruption that may have affected customer perceptions if management had not correctly addressed the problem. Business Strategies. s point-of-sale system went down.

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The Importance of Business Continuity Whitepaper

Erwood Group

The Importance of Business Continuity is an extensive Whitepaper first written in 2009 by our CEO & Principle Managing Consultant – Keith Erwood. The Importance of Business Continuity is a great resource. Importance of Business Continuity open. Get Whitepaper.

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The Post Office Scandal – Why Now?

Plan B Consulting

First in Computer Weekly (2009) and Private Eye (2011), and then in mainstream newspapers, so this story was not new. I think as business continuity professionals, we should take note of Melissa’s formula for stories going viral and recognise the three elements. For a long time, journalists had written about the scandal.

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Storage and Data Protection News for the Week of March 15: Updates from VergeIO, Pure Storage, AtData, and More

Solutions Review

Pure Storage has been at the forefront of revolutionizing enterprise data storage since its inception in 2009. ioGuardian sets a new standard for backup and recovery processes by offering inline recovery capabilities, ensuring near-continuous data access without needing traditional recovery timeframes. ” Read on for more.

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The Rise of “Quick and Dirty” DR Testing 

MHA Consulting

Related on MHA Consulting: Testing, Testing: Our Best Blogs on BC Testing and Mock Disaster Exercises IT/DR Testing As It Used to Be The other day I came across a blog I wrote in 2009 that set forth a timeline of recommended steps organizations should take as preparation for conducting an IT/DR test, with the earliest coming a full three months before (..)

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What is a “Grey Rhino” and Should I Be Worried About Them?

Plan B Consulting

A couple of years ago I used the time to get the majority of my book on Business Continuity Exercises written. I was approached by a Business Continuity Manager asking how to get his senior managers to take the oncoming threat of Covid seriously, so his organisation could prepare for it. The Grey Rhino was onto us.

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Ten Years of Teaching the CBCI Certification Course – What Has Changed?

Plan B Consulting

What I think is especially interesting, is how the points I emphasised and thought were important in my first course in Glasgow June 2009, have changed since then. The students on my course were all relatively new to business continuity, but they all came from organisations which already had business continuity in place.

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