Oclaro and Fabrinet management are actively investigating alternative production locations and have enacted business continuity plans.
Events like these spurred businesses to urgently consider disaster recovery and business continuity planning.
CIOs should take a proactive approach for incorporating the DDoS threat into security and business continuity planning.
Many companies in Japan have long emphasized and invested in maintaining business continuity as a key IT principle.
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How often have you tested the disaster recovery (DR) or even more importantly, the business continuity (BC) and availability of your environment?
With half or more public companies lacking any formal succession plans, business continuity and talent retention are significant risks that hide in plain sight.
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In the end, one of the most important considerations to keep in mind is that Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity are not a one-size-fits-all proposition.
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Success, it's now understood, goes to those that can genuinely reduce costs, recruit and retain the best employees, and ensure business continuity when disaster strikes.
Ironically, these same recent events also highlight how cloud infrastructures, when managed correctly, actually provide unprecedented capabilities to deliver high availability, resiliency, and business continuity in IT operations.
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Energy Network allows organizations to manage the full spectrum of distributed generation assets as a fleet, which enhances business continuity, reduces enterprise risk and transforms cost centers into profit centers.
With so many threats to business continuity in the current environment, it can be difficult to assess how robust and effective your planning will be in the event of a disaster.
Indeed, the Chartered Management Institute and the Civil Contingencies Secretariat, within the Cabinet Office, produce an annual report on threats to business including best practice advice on implementing business continuity plans (BCP).
The best way to protect your organization from unplanned downtime due to a natural disaster or human error has always been to implement redundancy and diversity in your disaster recovery and business continuity systems.
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As you have pointed out, there has been considerable attention to business continuity in the media over the last few years, especially in the wake of extreme weather conditions, such as flooding, and various terrorist attacks.
Despite the Amazon outage, the fact is that public clouds now provide organizations with an impressively wide array of options to implement business continuity at a level of affordability that simply did not exist a few years ago.
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Companies considering a nearshoring engagement in Mexico, or any area with political volatility or violence, should invest time upfront with their provider to validate business continuity and disaster recovery plans and develop special termination clauses and detailed transition plans.
As a result, Japanese companies are rethinking business continuity, eschewing traditional disaster recovery architectures and looking to the cloud to provide a new level of redundancy, failure isolation and geographical diversity for their IT resources in a more cost-effective manner.
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Prior to joining EMD, Wendy spent a decade acquiring hands-on global and national disaster preparedness and response private sector operational experience managing physical security, national crisis management and business continuity projects and teams at Microsoft and the former Washington Mutual Bank.
Intel expects WLS to continue growing, and remaining a standalone business to ensure continuity of existing customer sales, projects and support.
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There is no doubt that petitioners intended o profit from the purchase of the Brasada property, but their activity had not, as of 2007 and 2008, become a trade or business conducted with continuity and regularity.
The requirement to ensure continuity of service for business and consumers in the period up to, and immediately following, independence would be a priority.
And he also, to the point about business, has a lot of respect in the business community, so there is continuity in that respect.
Furthermore, intelligent business leaders surely recognize that no administration can ensure continuity in government policy.
It can provide a sense of tradition and continuity - an important consideration especially in fields outside politics and business.
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