Revisiting Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity
Information Week
JUNE 10, 2020
Best-of-class DR/BC plans cover both IT and the business. Unfortunately, in many companies, the emphasis for recovery is on the IT, and not on business operations.
Great Resignation hits IT departments and companies are switching strategies
Tech Republic Security
AUGUST 20, 2021
To ensure business continuity amid high turnover, many CIOs are planning to alter their strategies to make the company "less dependent on employee institutional knowledge," says PwC.
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How to create an effective business continuity plan
CIO Business Intelligence
DECEMBER 7, 2023
A solid business continuity plan is one of those foundational elements. Every business should have the mindset that they will face a disaster, and every business needs a plan to address the different potential scenarios,” says Goh Ser Yoong, head of compliance at Advance.AI What is a business continuity plan?
IT leaders rethink the people part of business continuity
CIO Business Intelligence
JUNE 20, 2022
A significant number of US companies have workers in Ukraine, according to Ukrainian government figures , with about 20% of Fortune 500 companies employing Ukrainian IT services. Many more US companies have workers in other countries as part of their global footprints, and still more have employees distributed across the United States.
Business continuity planning: A proactive approach to threat management
CIO Business Intelligence
APRIL 5, 2022
Current headlines from Ukraine have many companies concerned about the safety of employees or contractors residing there. Events like this highlight the importance of developing contingency plans based on events in the world that can impact businesses. Business continuity is an essential part of the planning process for CIOs and CTOs.
Strong Business Continuity Management Brings Resilience
CIO Business Intelligence
MAY 11, 2022
Business disruptions happen every day and can cause companies to lose millions of dollars and suffer reputational damage. When astute executives, including CIOs, cheat disruption by focusing on business continuity management (BCM) programs that build resilience, the enterprise transformation can prosper. Dugan Krwawicz.
ControlMonkey aims to bring order to cloud disaster recovery chaos
Network World
MARCH 25, 2025
ControlMonkey is in the business of helping to improve cloud automation. Most companies dont have full coverage of everything in their infrastructure within infrastructure as code, so there are a lot of blind spotsyou dont know what you dont know, Twizer emphasized.
IT resiliency: Running two different hypervisors
CIO Business Intelligence
NOVEMBER 4, 2024
Rather than wait for a storm to hit, IT professionals map out options and build strategies to ensure business continuity. I do recognize some companies are probably easier than ours to go ahead and do the migration. Having a Plan B is table stakes for any IT team. We needed to plan out this migration,” he said. “It
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SAP to give on-prem customers three-year reprieve — with a catch
CIO Business Intelligence
JANUARY 27, 2025
The standard maintenance for SAP ERP and Business Suite is set to expire at the end of 2027. After that, SAP user companies would have the option to purchase the more expensive extended maintenance for an additional three years. This measure will certainly be of benefit to these companies.
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Companies step up help for Ukraine-based IT staff
CIO Business Intelligence
MARCH 9, 2022
Pfau got the chairman’s okay on Super Bowl weekend to temporarily relocate Ukrainian staff members and their families to Poland, with the company paying for travel and accommodations for four weeks. All told, the company has now moved about 200 people, he says. Company Folders Inc., Activating contingency plans. as a teenager.
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Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity: Putting Your Plan in Place
Data Center Knowledge
AUGUST 27, 2014
One in 3 companies have declared a disaster in the past five years, writes Ray Emirzian of docSTAR. Where would your business be without electricity? So if you think it can’t happen to you, think again. Industry Perspectives'
AI as a catalyst for ESG: Empowering CIOs to drive sustainable innovation
CIO Business Intelligence
OCTOBER 10, 2024
The CIO’s integral role in this transformation is crucial and deeply valued, underscoring their importance in the company’s success. As AI technologies continue to evolve, their potential to support the ecological pillar of ESG will grow, making AI an essential tool for companies striving for sustainability.
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Are Your Firewalls and VPNs the Weakest Link in Your Security Stack?
Network World
OCTOBER 21, 2024
Cybersecurity has become a boardroom priority with far-reaching implications for business continuity and reputation. It requires a new mindset that acknowledges the decentralized nature of our digital world and emphasizes continuous verification and adaptation for security.
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AI platforms driving business transformation in the UAE: insights from industry experts
CIO Business Intelligence
NOVEMBER 18, 2024
As businesses continue to explore the potential of AI, the integration of generative technologies is seen as essential to remaining competitive in a rapidly evolving market. Kenneth Lindegaard, Group CIO at Etihad Rail also provided valuable insights on how AI is transforming the way companies think about data and operations.
14 in-demand cloud roles companies are hiring for
CIO Business Intelligence
DECEMBER 22, 2023
To tackle that, businesses are turning their budgets toward the cloud, with two out of every three IT decision-makers planning to increase cloud budgets in 2024, and nearly a third (31%) reporting that 31% of their IT budget is earmarked for cloud computing, according to the 2023 Cloud Computing Study from CIO.com parent company Foundry.
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8 major IT disasters of 2024
CIO Business Intelligence
DECEMBER 24, 2024
The companys global CIO didnt offer details but noted that the outage was not related to a cybersecurity attack. Dangers of third-party software updates McDonalds wasnt the only company plagued with point-of-sale outages. The company, in an odd explanation, blamed developers who tried to cut boot times with some software modifications.
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How resilient CIOs future-proof to mitigate risks
CIO Business Intelligence
DECEMBER 18, 2024
Risk management is getting more board and executive attention, and even fairly modern risk frameworks are proving inadequate, adds Ralph Loura, former CIO and SVP at Lumentum, Hewlett-Packard, and The Clorox Company, among others. Investment in resilience is an investment in business continuity. AI assessments will follow suit.
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Click, ship, done: How a 150-year-old logistics company is delighting its customers
CIO Business Intelligence
JUNE 7, 2022
From delivering heavy cargo through drones to automating repetitive processes, Shantanu Roy, CIO for the Indian subcontinent at global logistics firm DB Schenker, is balancing innovation with business continuity. As a 150-year-old company, what is DB Schenker doing to align technology for meeting the ever-changing needs of customers?
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Transforming distribution: How Ingram Micro is becoming a platform business
CIO Business Intelligence
DECEMBER 18, 2024
Our business is our people and our platform, Ingram Micro Xvantage. As a platform company, well be able to price every SKU in real time, push personalized product recommendations, and bundle solutions. We cant be a technology company without bringing business operations into technology. We discuss everything.
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Is your disaster recovery a house of cards? Why BIA, BCP, and DRP are your foundation
CIO Business Intelligence
MARCH 4, 2025
In fact, successful recovery from cyberattacks and other disasters hinges on an approach that integrates business impact assessments (BIA), business continuity planning (BCP), and disaster recovery planning (DRP) including rigorous testing. However, this figure varies depending on industry and company size.
How to prioritize AI initiatives: A strategic framework for maximizing ROI
CIO Business Intelligence
JANUARY 28, 2025
There are only two types of companies in this world, those who are great at AI and everybody else. This quote sums up the need for companies to prioritize artificial intelligence (AI) initiatives and also captures the state of the AI race today. 74% of companies are struggling to achieve value and scale. Theres no avoiding it.
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Rover’s business continues to bounce back in first earnings report as public company
GeekWire
AUGUST 9, 2021
Issuing its first earnings report as a public company , Rover reported gross bookings of $134 million in the second quarter, the highest quarterly total in its history, reflecting increased usage of its online pet-care marketplace as travel starts to recover in some parts of the world. Rover Graphic). 2 at $11.67.
FORRward: A Weekly Read For Tech And Marketing Execs
Forrester IT
MARCH 23, 2020
Better Late Than Never: There’s Still Time To Improve Your Pandemic Plans Companies are showing renewed interest in business continuity and revising their pandemic plans in response to the coronavirus outbreak.
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3% IT budget increases fueled by AI, security, networking
Network World
SEPTEMBER 13, 2024
Essentially, only companies in dire financial straits are likely to be cutting IT budgets. More than 68% of companies report they plan to increase their IT spending on AI, as well as two infrastructure areas that power AI—the network and data analytics.
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Critical Actions Post Data Breach
SecureWorld News
DECEMBER 30, 2024
It is possible that these premises will need to be worked on by law enforcement and cyber forensics experts before the company can return to normal operations. The focus now shifts to ensuring business continuity. A well-structured BCP ensures that critical operations can continue or resume swiftly.
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LinkedIn Expands With Texas Data Center
Data Center Knowledge
NOVEMBER 6, 2013
LinkedIn, the social network for business, continues to expand its data center infrastructure to support its rapid growth. The company signed a $116 million, 11-year lease for a large chunk of data center space in Dallas. Featured'
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FORRward: A Weekly Read For Tech And Marketing Execs
Forrester IT
MARCH 9, 2020
As our Security & Risk team wrote early on in this epidemic, not only do companies need a Business Continuity Plan (BCP), they must also recognize employees as the […]. But what about the effect on your employees?
AI and cybersecurity: A double-edged sword
CIO Business Intelligence
JANUARY 21, 2025
Companies like CrowdStrike have documented that their AI-driven systems can detect threats in under one second. For example, attackers recently used AI to pose as representatives of an insurance company. For starters, its revolutionizing threat detection and response. But AIs capabilities dont stop at detection.
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What to do when your IT provider vanishes
CIO Business Intelligence
OCTOBER 4, 2024
In the ever-changing tech landscape, service interruptions and company disappearances are more common than CIOs would like. The client company must also consider the possibility of recovering payments, and could be entitled to claim compensation or participate in the liquidation process.
CIOs eye SaaS backup plans post-CrowdStrike
CIO Business Intelligence
SEPTEMBER 10, 2024
As a result, software supply chains and vendor risk management are becoming ever more vital (and frequent) conversations in the C-suite today, as companies seek to reduce their exposure to outages and the business continuity issues of key vendors their businesses depend on.
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8 reasons your cloud costs are too high
CIO Business Intelligence
FEBRUARY 18, 2025
Anecdotally, Ive heard of cases where consulting companies have been brought in to optimize the use of AI models because the resourcing cost increased by hundreds of thousands of dollars due to a lack of upfront planning.
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Fountainhead: Pointers for IT Business Continuity & Pandemics
Fountainhead
APRIL 29, 2009
Pointers for IT Business Continuity & Pandemics. For example, if youre a salesperson, youre probably in an office 10% of your time, if that much -- so why do companies pay for that permanent office space? But how would this affect business operations? Pointers for IT Business Continuity & Pandemics.
Redefining enterprise transformation in the age of intelligent ecosystems
CIO Business Intelligence
JANUARY 16, 2025
What we consistently overlooked were the direct and indirect consequences of disruption to business continuity, the challenges of acquisitions and divestitures, the demands of integration and interoperability for large enterprises and, most of all, the unimpressive track record for most enterprise transformation efforts.
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11:11 Systems: Empowering enterprises to modernize, protect, and manage their IT assets and data
CIO Business Intelligence
NOVEMBER 1, 2024
Virtually every company relied on cloud, connectivity, and security solutions, but no technology organization provided all three. We enable them to bring everything together so that their multi-cloud infrastructure addresses the most demanding business continuity and cyber resilience requirements.”
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Resilient data backup and recovery is critical to enterprise success
CIO Business Intelligence
JUNE 1, 2023
Even worse, one-third of companies that paid the ransom still didn’t get their data back, and the average downtime for ransomware victims was two weeks. This data doesn’t even take into account other threats to business continuity, ranging from natural disasters to the accidental deletion of data.
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Inside CIOs’ response to the CrowdStrike outage — and the lessons they learned
CIO Business Intelligence
AUGUST 5, 2024
Like Mainiero, many CIOs got a rude awakening on July 19 with the news that their organization had experienced an outage due to a faulty software update from cybersecurity company CrowdStrike. ecosystem management company. Depending on the size of your IT department, it should be all hands on deck if there’s a company-wide outage.
CIOs weigh the new economics and risks of cloud lock-in
CIO Business Intelligence
DECEMBER 14, 2023
The more applications and businesses that depend on a single cloud provider, the greater the potential for wide-scale impact of business continuity failures, Gartner’s surveys revealed. Many companies have multiple cloud providers and understand the nuances of developing in multiple cloud environments.
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BMC to split into two independent organizations
CIO Business Intelligence
OCTOBER 9, 2024
A decision by BMC to split into two independent companies was surprising from a timing perspective, but may have taken place so one unit, or potentially both, could be eventually sold off, Gartner VP Analyst Gregg Siegfried said on Wednesday. Under the new arrangement, he said, BMC, which is owned by private equity (PE) firm KKR & Co.,
Oracle expands cloud footprint with a second region in Chile
CIO Business Intelligence
DECEMBER 12, 2023
The second region will be based in the Valparaíso Region alongside the existing region in Santiago, the company said, adding that the new region will bolster its efforts to address business continuity while complying with data residency and sovereignty regulations.
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Rising cloud costs leave CIOs seeking ways to cope
CIO Business Intelligence
AUGUST 27, 2024
More workloads in the cloud In addition, many companies are moving larger and more complex workloads to the cloud, says Mayank Bhargava, vice president and cloud modernization practice leader at CGI, a business and IT consulting firm. “As Those forgotten servers can add sneaky charges to a company’s cloud bill.
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25 enterprise tech predictions and goals for 2025, from APAC CIOs
CIO Business Intelligence
FEBRUARY 3, 2025
Today, many chatbots leave customers feeling disconnected especially as companies make human customer service harder to access. While prevention (security) is important, organisations are increasingly focusing on recovery and business continuity. This will enhance customer satisfaction, loyalty, and drive business growth.
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SAP is holding data for Russian customers
CIO Business Intelligence
APRIL 8, 2022
In a March 23 letter from SAP’s executive board, the Walldorf-based company gave its Russian clients three options to choose from. An SAP spokesperson told CIO magazine that the data in the data centers does not belong to the company, but to its customers. The third option is to migrate the data to foreign data centers.
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CrowdStrike incident has CIOs rethinking their cloud strategies
CIO Business Intelligence
JULY 22, 2024
In response to recent disruptions affecting our critical operations, we have proactively updated our Business Continuity Plan to address unexpected downtimes and minimize the impact on productivity and service delivery,” said Shivkumar Borade, founder and CMD of Mytek Innovations, a victim of the BSOD effect.
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Buyer’s guide: Data protection for hybrid clouds
Network World
NOVEMBER 4, 2024
Data protection is a broad category that includes data security but also encompasses backup and disaster recovery, safe data storage, business continuity and resilience, and compliance with data privacy regulations. Do I have systems in place to apply continuous vulnerability assessments to identify gaps in security coverage?
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