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Leading by (Bad) Example: Companies in the News Show What Not to Do 

MHA Consulting

Two of the latest are Ticketmaster and Southwest Airlines. Alternately, they might acknowledge the possibility of outages but resist investing in BC on the theory that their people are good enough to improvise their way out of trouble if anything does go wrong. This led to a delay of almost 2,000 Southwest flights.

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Scary DR Stories 2023 Recap

Zerto

This year we had three spine-tingling tales that covered everything from hardware failures and human errors to ominous outages, monstrous migrations, and a blindsiding bioterrorism attack! This helps customers mitigate data loss and downtime, as they can now detect an anomaly within seconds, then protect and recover within just a few minutes.

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Business Continuity vs. Disaster Recovery: What’s the Difference?

Pure Storage

When a hurricane leads to widespread power outages, flooding, and workforce disruption, for example, an effective disaster recovery plan ensures that IT systems remain up and running and that operations can come back online as soon as possible.

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Business Continuity vs. Disaster Recovery: What’s the Difference?

Pure Storage

When a regional storm makes travel difficult and causes short-term power outages, for example, an effective business continuity plan will have already laid out the potential impact, measures to mitigate associated problems, and a strategy for communicating with employees, vendors, customers, and other stakeholders.

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Storm Arwen: Lessons Re-Identified?

Plan B Consulting

There have been power outages where people have been off power for a similar length of time and subsequent enquiries with their recommendations have taken place, but nothing seems to improve and we suffer in the same way again. Some organisations, such as airlines and the UK railway system, seem to have a good process in place.

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Storm Arwen: Lessons Re-Identified?

Plan B Consulting

There have been power outages where people have been off power for a similar length of time and subsequent enquiries with their recommendations have taken place, but nothing seems to improve and we suffer in the same way again. Some organisations, such as airlines and the UK railway system, seem to have a good process in place.

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Storm Arwen: Lessons Re-Identified?

Plan B Consulting

There have been power outages where people have been off power for a similar length of time and subsequent enquiries with their recommendations have taken place, but nothing seems to improve and we suffer in the same way again. Some organisations, such as airlines and the UK railway system, seem to have a good process in place.