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May 23, 2012

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ALSO CALLED: Continuity Planning, BCP DEFINITION: Business impact analysis (BIA) is an essential component of an organization's business continuance plan; it includes an exploratory component to reveal any vulnerabilities, and a planning component to develop strategies for minimizing risk. The result of analysis is a business impact analysis report, which describes the potential risks specific to the organization studied. One of the basic assumptions … Definition continues below.
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Classroom: Affordable Disaster Recovery in the Cloud sponsored by Dell and VMware VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENT: Moving real-time backups to the cloud can save you money and protect data. But how do you know your cloud DR plan is sound and what are the risks? This classroom covers the basics of cloud-based DR, including finding the right product and mitigating risks. Posted: 14 May 2012 \| Premiered: 14 May 2012 TOPICS: Business Continuity Planning \| Cloud Computing \| Cloud Disaster Recovery \| Disaster Planning \| Disaster Recovery \| Downtime \| Vendor Selection

E-Guide: Tips for protecting hard-copy records sponsored by Iron Mountain EGUIDE: Do you know why and how you should include hard-copy records in your disaster recovery and business continuity plan? Posted: 10 May 2012 \| Published: 10 May 2012 TOPICS: Business Continuity Planning \| Content Management \| Disaster Planning \| Disaster Recovery \| Document Management \| Records Management \| Storage Management

Don't Wait. Automate. Cut Disaster Recovery Downtime and Costs sponsored by FalconStor Software WEBCAST: Don't wait, automate! Check out this webcast to discover how automating your disaster recovery (DR) strategy can bring your business some impressive cost-savings and efficiency benefits. Posted: 04 May 2012 \| Premiered: 04 May 2012 TOPICS: Backups \| Business Continuity Planning \| Data Loss Prevention (DLP) \| Data Management \| Data Security \| Data Storage \| Disaster Planning \| Disaster Recovery \| Storage Management \| Storage Security

Chapter Download: Data Protection: Backup/Restore and Business Continuance/Disaster Recovery sponsored by CA ARCserve WHITE PAPER: A challenge for many organizations is how to balance the cost to protect against threat risks, compliance requirements, and the demand to protect more data for longer periods of time. This white paper explores issues, challenges, and opportunities for protecting data in cloud, virtual, and data storage networks. Read now to learn more. Posted: 03 May 2012 \| Published: 03 May 2012 TOPICS: Backup for Virtualized Servers \| Backups \| Business Continuation Services \| Business Continuity Planning \| Data Security \| Disaster Recovery \| Disaster Recovery Planning for Virtual Environments \| Storage Security \| Tiered Storage

E-Guide: DR Checklist: Tailoring your Plan to your Organization's Needs sponsored by FalconStor Software EGUIDE: This E-Guide is your ticket to establishing a successful disaster recovery and business continuity strategy. Posted: 03 May 2012 \| Published: 03 May 2012 TOPICS: Business Continuity Planning \| Content Management \| Data Loss Prevention (DLP) \| Data Management \| Data Recovery \| Data Security \| Data Storage \| Disaster Planning \| Disaster Recovery \| Storage Management \| Storage Security

VSA sponsored by VMware, Inc. WHITE PAPER: This ESG White Paper explains how VMware’s vSphere Storage Appliance (VSA) gives users an alternative software-based approach to business continuity and system availability that provides the necessary capabilities of shared storage without the physical requirement, and associated costs and complexity. Posted: 02 May 2012 \| Published: 02 May 2012 TOPICS: Business Continuity Planning \| Server Consolidation \| Server Hardware \| Server Virtualization \| SMBs \| Storage Appliances \| Virtual Machine \| VM \| VMware

CA Business Continuity Planning: IT Survival Guide sponsored by CA ARCserve WHITE PAPER: This white paper explores how businesses of all sizes can develop an effective business continuity plan designed to minimize the impact of disasters and reduce risk of time, money, valuable data, and reputation. Posted: 01 May 2012 \| Published: 01 May 2012 TOPICS: Backups \| Business Continuity Planning \| Data Recovery \| Data Replication \| Data Security \| Disaster Planning \| Disaster Recovery \| Disaster Recovery Planning for Virtual Environments \| Storage Security

Information security breaches survey 2012 sponsored by ComputerWeekly.com IT BRIEFING: Rising security breaches cost UK billions over the last 12 months as cyber attacks reached record levels, according to the 2012 Information Security Breaches survey. Posted: 24 Apr 2012 \| Published: 24 Apr 2012 TOPICS: Business Continuity Planning \| Contingency Planning \| Cybersecurity \| Cyberterrorism \| Data Loss Prevention (DLP) \| Denial of Service Attacks \| Fraud Protection \| Hackers \| Phishing \| Risk Management \| Security \| Security Best Practices \| Security Management \| Security Policies \| Security Spending \| Security Threats \| Trojan Horses \| Virus Protection

Quick-Start Guide to Disaster Recovery sponsored by Dell and VMware WHITE PAPER: Previous disaster recovery (DR) solutions were expensive, complex, and unreliable, leaving your critical data and enterprise at risk. Discover why a virtualized DR plan is the best choice and how you can implement a successful virtual infrastructure at your company. Posted: 24 Apr 2012 \| Published: 24 Apr 2012 TOPICS: Business Continuity Planning \| Data Security \| Disaster Recovery \| Disaster Recovery Planning for Virtual Environments \| Security Infrastructure \| Security Software \| Virtualization Security

Building an effective disaster recovery and business continuity strategy sponsored by Sirius and NetApp EGUIDE: This E-Guide examines 5 key data replication strategies that will help maintain the availability of critical health data, even in the event of a disaster. Posted: 23 Apr 2012 \| Published: 23 Apr 2012 TOPICS: Business Continuity Planning \| Disaster Planning \| Disaster Recovery \| Health Care Compliance \| Health Care Industry \| Health Care Security \| Health Care Storage \| Medical Practice Management \| Medical Records Management \| Security \| Security Best Practices \| Security Management \| Storage Best Practices \| Storage Management \| Storage Security

Building a Disaster Ready Infrastructure sponsored by CenturyLink WHITE PAPER: This white paper explores the factors surrounding a well implemented disaster recovery/business continuity plan that will ensure minimal impact to your organization. Read now to find out how you can prevent downtime and revenue loss caused by an unforeseen outage, hardware failure or natural disaster. Posted: 18 Apr 2012 \| Published: 18 Apr 2012 TOPICS: Business Continuity Planning \| Data Security \| Disaster Planning \| Disaster Recovery \| Security \| Security Best Practices \| Security Management \| Security Policies \| Security Threats

Blueprint for Cloud-Based eDiscovery sponsored by Guidance Software, Inc. WHITE PAPER: In this resource, uncover a blueprint for bringing eDiscovery in house via the cloud. This guide is set to serve as a framework for cloud computing security, privacy, control, risk, and cost concerns for corporations and law firms utilizing eDiscovery. Posted: 11 Apr 2012 \| Published: 11 Apr 2012 TOPICS: Application Security \| Business Continuity Planning \| Cloud Computing \| Cloud Management \| Cloud Security \| Disaster Recovery \| Electronic Discovery \| Electronic Discovery Software \| Private Cloud \| Public Cloud \| Risk Management \| Security \| SLA

Video: Fluid Data Overview sponsored by Dell, Inc. WEBCAST: Dell Fluid Data architecture was designed to always put the right data in the right place at the right time. With Fluid Data storage, your data center or cloud will be efficient, agile and resilient, easily adapting to changing business conditions. Watch this 3-minute webcast to learn more. Posted: 07 Apr 2012 \| Premiered: 07 Apr 2012 TOPICS: Business Continuity Planning \| Cloud Storage \| Data Replication \| Storage Capacity \| Storage Management \| Storage Optimization \| Storage Provisioning \| Storage Security \| Storage Virtualization

Introduction to VMware vSphere Storage Appliance sponsored by VMware, Inc. WEBCAST: View this webcast to learn about new vSphere Storage Appliance software, designed to cost-effectively protect your shared storage while improving application availability and minimizing downtime. Posted: 06 Apr 2012 \| Premiered: 06 Apr 2012 TOPICS: Applications Management \| Business Continuity Planning \| Server Virtualization \| Storage Appliances \| Storage Infrastructure \| Storage Management \| Storage Strategy for Virtual Data Centers

Case Study: Quarles & Brady Survives a Hurricane and Performs Discovery Processes 1.8-fold Faster with Dell Storage Solution sponsored by Dell, Inc. WHITE PAPER: On October 24, 2005, Hurricane Wilma made landfall in Florida. Damage in Florida alone totaled more than $26 billion, and in some areas power was out for two weeks. This 2-page case study explroes how Posted: 05 Apr 2012 \| Published: 05 Apr 2012 TOPICS: Backups \| Business Continuity Planning \| Data Recovery \| Disaster Recovery \| Disaster Recovery Planning for Virtual Environments \| Remote Backups \| Remote Office Connectivity \| SAN \| SAN and Virtualization

Euro crisis: Key questions CEOs and CIOs should ask each other sponsored by ComputerWeekly.com ANALYST BRIEF: With a potential economic crisis looming in the Eurozone, Gartner offers a checklist of questions that CIOs and CEOs should ask each other. Posted: 02 Apr 2012 \| Published: 02 Apr 2012 TOPICS: B2B \| B2C \| Business Continuity Planning \| Business Environment \| Business Intelligence \| CEOs \| CIOs \| Disaster Planning \| Disaster Recovery \| European Union \| Financial Systems \| Financing \| Supplier Management \| Supplier Relationship Management \| Supply Chains

E-Guide: Why Disaster Recovery Preparation Pays Off sponsored by Dell, Inc. EGUIDE: To protect your organization during unplanned downtime, you must have effective disaster recovery (DR) and business continuity (BC) plans in place. This expert e-guide provides best practices for creating a comprehensive DR strategy and discusses why contingent controls are a vital - yet overlooked - part of DR and BC. Posted: 30 Mar 2012 \| Published: 30 Mar 2012 TOPICS: Backups \| Business Continuity Planning \| Compliance (Systems Operations) \| Contingency Planning \| Disaster Planning \| Disaster Recovery \| Disaster Recovery Planning for Virtual Environments

E-Zine: Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery Strategies sponsored by Dell, Inc. EZINE: This e-zine will explore the benefits and risk of relying on the cloud for disaster recovery, how virtualization technologies can keep your employees productive when a disaster occurs and why enterprise organizations are starting to shape disaster recovery strategies around mobile devices. Posted: 23 Mar 2012 \| Published: 23 Mar 2012 TOPICS: Business Continuity Planning \| Cloud Computing \| Cloud Disaster Recovery \| Disaster Planning \| Disaster Recovery \| Disaster Recovery Planning for Virtual Environments \| Virtual Machine Backups

Business Continuity Management: A holistic approach sponsored by BlueCentral WHITE PAPER: A successful business is based on continuity. This resource presents three key elements that you must consider with your business continuity landscape including crisis management, IT recovery, and business recovery. Inside, discover a holistic approach to managing and integrating these three stages of recovery. Posted: 14 Mar 2012 \| Published: 14 Mar 2012 TOPICS: Business Continuity Planning \| Business Continuity Planning Software \| Business Intelligence \| Business Management \| Data Center Management \| IT Management

Succession Planning for Advisory Firm sponsored by Advent Software, Inc WHITE PAPER: Inside this white paper, learn how to meet the necessary compliance requirements that will ensure a smooth transition when planning for the succession of your advisory firm. Posted: 12 Mar 2012 \| Published: 12 Mar 2012 TOPICS: Business Continuity Planning \| Business Management \| Compliance (Finance) \| Compliance Best Practices \| Financial Management \| Financial Services Industry \| Regulatory Compliance

Mercy Clinic Central Communities - Timely, Expert Response Saves Patient Records sponsored by Iron Mountain CASE STUDY: This case study examines how one health care organization was able to recover and restore patient data within months of a major disaster. Read on to see how they did it. Posted: 08 Mar 2012 \| Published: 08 Mar 2012 TOPICS: Business Continuity Planning \| Disaster Planning \| Disaster Recovery \| Health Care Compliance \| Health Care Industry \| Health Care Security \| Health Care Software \| Medical Practice Management \| Medical Records Management

E-Guide: Disaster Recovery Tips for Server Virtualization sponsored by Dell and VMware EGUIDE: Businesses continue to virtualize their servers at a brisk pace; however, many are not taking steps to ensure that a proper disaster recovery and business continuity plan is in place. Discover how virtualization can actually help improve your DR and find out how you can craft a comprehensive virtual DR plan in this expert e-guide. Posted: 07 Mar 2012 \| Published: 07 Mar 2012 TOPICS: Backup for Virtualized Servers \| Backups \| Business Continuity Planning \| Disaster Recovery \| Disaster Recovery Planning for Virtual Environments \| Server Virtualization \| Storage for Virtualized Servers \| Storage Management

Global Sourcing Trends in 2012 sponsored by ComputerWeekly.com IT BRIEFING: The latest IT outsourcing trends from global law firm Morrison & Foerster. Posted: 05 Mar 2012 \| Published: 05 Mar 2012 TOPICS: Budgeting \| Business Continuity Planning \| Business Process Outsourcing \| Cloud Computing \| Government Agencies (non-U.S.) \| Government Agencies (U.S.) \| Outsourcing \| Privacy Rights \| Security \| Security Management \| Vendor Selection \| Vendors

Downtime Costs: What Do You Really Stand to Lose? sponsored by Iron Mountain WHITE PAPER: Check out this white paper for 5 best practices to help you sharpen your DR focus and start developing a stronger disaster recovery plan today. Posted: 29 Feb 2012 \| Published: 29 Feb 2012 TOPICS: Backups \| Business Continuity Planning \| Content Management \| Data Loss Prevention (DLP) \| Data Management \| Data Security \| Data Storage \| Disaster Planning \| Disaster Recovery

2012 Security Outlook sponsored by ComputerWeekly.com ESSENTIAL GUIDE: This report from the Corporate Executive Board, based on extensive research with Chief Information Security Officers, identifies the top 10 security imperatives for 2012. Posted: 24 Feb 2012 \| Published: 24 Feb 2012 TOPICS: Business Continuity Planning \| CISOs \| Compliance Best Practices \| Data Loss Prevention (DLP) \| Denial of Service Attacks \| Hackers \| Mobile Device Management \| Mobile Workers \| Phishing \| Risk Assessment \| Risk Management \| Security \| Security Best Practices \| Security Management \| Security Policies \| Security Threats \| Smart Phones

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BUSINESS CONTINUITY PLANNING DEFINITION (continued): … behind BIA is that every component of the organization is reliant upon the continued functioning of every other component, but that some are more crucial than others and require a greater allocation of funds in the wake of a disaster. For example, a business may be able to continue more or less normally if the cafeteria has to close, but would come to a complete halt if the information system crashes. As part of a disaster recovery plan, BIA is likely to identify costs linked to failures, such as loss of cash flow, replacement of equipment, salaries paid to catch up with a backlog of work, loss …
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