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How to create an effective business continuity plan

CIO Business Intelligence

Yet at the same time, only 70% of respondents said they were confident in their organization’s ability to respond to disruptions, with PwC noting that its research shows that too many organizations “are lacking the foundational elements of resilience they need to be successful.” What is a business continuity plan?

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IT leaders rethink the people part of business continuity

CIO Business Intelligence

Like others, Orlandini does not consider the topic as entirely new; it fits with business continuity planning. Many other executives are devising strategies for responding in such scenarios, says David Groombridge, a distinguished vice president analyst within the sourcing, procurement and vendor management team at Gartner Research.

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Calling Business Resilience Pros: Our Latest State Of Business Continuity Survey Is Live!

Forrester IT

Each year, Forrester Research and the Disaster Recovery Journal (DRJ) team up to launch a study examining the state of business resiliency. We alternate between two resilience domains each year: IT disaster recovery and business continuity. This is the year of business continuity!

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

CIO Business Intelligence

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. Disaster recovery is more than just an IT issue.

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Can Kubernetes Navigate Disaster?

Forrester IT

Once you’ve got Kubernetes in production, those predictable business continuity and disaster recovery (DR) exercises get a lot more interesting — and not necessarily in a good way. That’s why I’m focusing on the challenges of Kubernetes disaster recovery and business continuity in my recently published research.

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Calling Business Resilience Pros!

Forrester IT

Each year, Forrester Research and the Disaster Recovery Journal team up to launch a study examining the state of business resiliency. We focus on a different, rotating resiliency domain each year: IT disaster recovery, business continuity, or overall enterprise risk management. In this survey, […].

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8 reasons your cloud costs are too high

CIO Business Intelligence

Underutilized and/or overprovisioned resources are among the biggest contributors to high cloud costs, says Shreehari Kulkarni, principal consultant with global technology research and advisory firm ISG. Myers also stresses the need to establish a strong cloud foundation that supports both immediate deployment needs and future workloads.

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