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How to create an effective business continuity plan

A business continuity plan outlines procedures and instructions an organization must follow in the face of disaster, whether fire, flood, or cyberattack. Here’s how to create a plan that gives your business the best chance of surviving such an event.

By Mary K. Pratt

May 8, 202613 mins

Business ContinuityDisaster Recovery

SAP touts Microsoft disaster recovery plan for Europe; Analysts doubt it will work

By Evan Schuman

Nov 19, 20257 mins

Disaster RecoveryMicrosoftSAP

Is your disaster recovery a house of cards? Why BIA, BCP, and DRP are your foundation

By Daniel Saroff, IDC group vice president, end user consulting and research

Mar 4, 20259 mins

Disaster RecoveryRisk Management

8 major IT disasters of 2024

By Grant Gross

Dec 24, 20248 mins

Business ContinuityDisaster RecoveryTechnology Industry

Stretching comms to the limit in the wake of a natural disaster

By María Ramos Domínguez

Nov 29, 20246 mins

Disaster RecoveryIT Skills and TrainingTelecommunications Industry

Articles

German firms shed light on CrowdStrike disaster’s fallout

One in 10 German companies surveyed are looking to switch IT security vendors, having endured on average 10 hours of business disruption, and two to three days until full recovery.

By Jens Dose

Sep 25, 2024 4 mins

Business ContinuityDisaster RecoveryTechnology Industry

CrowdStrike failure: What you need to know

A flawed update to CrowdStrike Falcon sent Windows servers and PCs across the globe into an endless reboot cycle that IT organizations are still working to remediate.

By CIO staff

Aug 1, 2024 14 mins

Business ContinuityDisaster RecoveryTechnology Industry

Counting the cost of CrowdStrike: the bug that bit billions

Cyber insurance coverage is set to cover only a fraction of the losses, leaving affected businesses to grapple with substantial uncovered expenses.

By Shweta Sharma

Jul 26, 2024 4 mins

Business ContinuityDisaster RecoveryEndpoint Protection

Selling the C-suite on preemptive IT investments

Greater scrutiny on margins means earning the green light on preemptive projects that don’t produce immediate ROI, such as disaster recovery, a tough sell. Here’s how CIOs can make the case.

By Mary Shacklett

Mar 12, 2024 5 mins

BudgetingBusiness ContinuityData and Information Security

Why You Need to Consider Disaster Recovery-as-a-Service

Discover how DRaaS can simplify operations and minimize risk in a cost-effective, customizable, and scalable way.

By Lawrence Redford

Dec 20, 2022

Disaster Recovery

8 big IT failures of 2023

From damaged database files to generative AI misuse, these high-profile IT disasters wreaked real-world havoc this year. Let them serve as cautionary tales.

By Josh Fruhlinger

Dec 26, 2023 11 mins

Business ContinuityDisaster RecoveryGenerative AI

How to create an effective business continuity plan

By Mary K. Pratt, Ed Tittel, Kim Lindros

Dec 7, 2023 11 mins

Backup and RecoveryDisaster RecoverySmall and Medium Business

What CIOs can learn from the massive Optus outage

The Australian telco’s outage, which has already led to a leadership shakeup, offers IT leaders important lessons in resiliency and disaster recovery, as well as a prompt to reassess plans, spark conversations, and make investments to mitigate risks and avoid fallout.

By Rosalyn Page

Nov 23, 2023 10 mins

Business ContinuityDisaster RecoveryTelecommunications Industry

The DR essential IT leaders can no long overlook

All too often companies ignore the public relations portion of their DR plans — an omission that can lead to worse business consequences than those caused by the disaster itself.

By Mary Shacklett

May 23, 2023 7 mins

Disaster RecoveryIT Leadership

What CIOs everywhere can learn from Canada’s nationwide internet outage

A sudden loss of internet service by provider Rogers Communications that disconnected millions of Canadians and shut down 9-1-1 service, POS payments, and more for over a day holds three main lessons for CIOs worldwide

By James Careless

Aug 30, 2022

Disaster RecoveryIT LeadershipInternet Service Providers

Business continuity planning: A proactive approach to threat management

Assessing the threat landscape and putting a plan in place can help you build operational resiliency against geopolitical and other potentially disruptive events.

By Siddharth Ram

Apr 5, 2022 8 mins

Business ContinuityDisaster RecoveryRisk Management

5 ways to take control of data in 2021

COVID-19 is transforming the way the economy works, guaranteeing that our data needs will also change and grow. Here's what that means for CIOs in the year ahead.

By Anna Frazzetto

Dec 3, 2020 5 mins

Disaster RecoveryEdge ComputingInternet of Things

Lessons in IT resiliency for the COVID-19 era

Rapid response to disruptions caused by the pandemic will lead to better continuity plans going forward, participants in an #IDGTECHtalk Twitter chat said.

By Beth Stackpole

Jul 10, 2020

Business ContinuityCloud ComputingDisaster Recovery

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