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Safeguarding Your Computer Systems: How to Build an IT Disaster Recovery Team

MHA Consulting

The cost of not having an IT disaster recovery team can range from being unable to recover from a disruption, to overspending. Related on MHA Consulting: Who Does What: The Most Critical Job Roles in IT Disaster Recovery The Price of Neglecting IT/DR Being a business continuity consultant can be frustrating.

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The Four Phases of Disaster Recovery

MHA Consulting

In today’s post we’ll look at why organizations still need to be adept at IT disaster recovery (IT/DR) and describe the four phases of restoring IT services after an outage. Phase 1: Preparation Technically, preparation is not a phase of disaster recovery since it happens before the outage. Let’s look at them one by one.

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The Ocado fire – when disaster recovery becomes real

IT Governance BC

Although share prices showed signs of recovery within a couple of days, more than £1 billion was wiped off the stock market value of the firm, as investors worried that retailers may be less keen to buy into the automated warehouse technology having seen that there is a potential vulnerability.*. Business continuity management.

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BCM Trends for 2020

Stratogrid Advisory

BCM Trends for 2020! The Disaster Recovery Institute (DRI) recently released its 4th Annual BCM Trends and Predictions Report , which provides predictions for resilience trends in 2019/2020. BCM as a Service. IT Disaster Recovery. Last Updated on May 31, 2020 by Alex Jankovic. Reading Time: 4 minutes.

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BCM Program Governance is a key for it’s success

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BCM Program Governance is a key for it's success. Unsurprisingly, governance also plays a key role in Business Continuity Management (BCM) , because effective BCM needs to be a part of the organization’s “way of life”. BCM Program requires a strong Governance model. Last Updated on May 31, 2020 by Alex Jankovic.

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Why Every BC Professional Should Become a Gap Hunter

MHA Consulting

Capacity limitations. We often see that efforts to recover critical apps are derailed by limitations in computing or storage capacity. In today’s environment, you cannot just go out and buy capacity. If your solution is “cloud” and your environment is not running in the cloud, just recovering in the cloud is not possible.

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Introduction to Business Continuity Planning

Stratogrid Advisory

BCP is one of the components of the Business Continuity Management (BCM) Program which should be implemented in organizations of all sizes. The implementation of a BCM Program could be a rather complex and lengthy process, which largely depends on the organization’s size. Reading Time: 6 minutes. Regardless of the industry (e.g.