Business Continuity Planning Reports

DATA SHEET: What is your organization's rate of successful data backup and restore? Are you worried about your exposure to data loss? Unsuccessful backups and long restore times can negatively impact your business. This data sheet discusses how IBM can help with an on-site data protection and business resilience solution.

Posted: 12 Aug 2011 | Published: 12 Aug 2011

DATA SHEET: The demand for continuous access to information and applications places increasing pressure on organizations to have an optimal business resilience program. This data sheet discusses how IBM can help you assess, plan, design, architect, implement and test your business continuity and resilience plans across the enterprise.

Posted: 12 Aug 2011 | Published: 12 Aug 2011

WHITE PAPER: The paper includes calculations showing the cost of downtime expected for a given level of EHR solution uptime in practices of various sizes, as well as products associated with specific uptime levels. The report also includes a “cost per hour” tool that estimates the financial impact of downtime in practices they administer, oversee or assist.

Posted: 11 Aug 2011 | Published: 11 Aug 2011

WHITE PAPER: SMBs want to take advantage of the benefits of virtualization but it can be costly to manage if they do not have the required skills in-house. Dan Kusnetzky takes a deep look at all of the benefits as well as the issues these businesses are facing, including the requirement to use automated systems, reducing complexity and maintaining availability.

Posted: 11 Aug 2011 | Published: 11 Aug 2011

PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT: Disaster recovery (DR) is a critical operation for nearly every organization, and automating the DR process is essential for ensuring it happens continuously and efficiently. Take a look at this presentation transcript to learn how you can leverage virtualization to create an effective DR plan for your entire infrastructure.

Posted: 09 Aug 2011 | Published: 25 Jul 2011

WHITE PAPER: This comprehensive white paper explores the factors to consider and the evaluations needed to make informed decisions to minimize downtime, prevent technological mishaps, and compensate for natural or man-made disasters.

Posted: 08 Aug 2011 | Published: 08 Aug 2011

EGUIDE: Disaster recovery (DR) shouldn’t be left on the back burner until a natural disaster strikes. In fact, around 80% of network disruptions are a result of IT architecture complexity. But for many organizations, virtualization is an economical DR solution. This e-guide addresses the benefits of virtual disaster recovery.

Posted: 05 Aug 2011 | Published: 05 Aug 2011

PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT: In this presentation transcript, Andrew Burton, senior editor of SearchDisasterRecovery.com and Jeff Boles, senior analyst with the Taneja Group, discuss who should consider automatic failover, the vendors that offer products in this space, how the technology works, and the challenges associated with automatic failover.

Posted: 29 Jul 2011 | Published: 29 Jul 2011

EGUIDE: Regarding disaster recovery, expenses currently overshadow the risk of theoretical disaster. As a result, CIOs who hope to implement or upgrade their DR plans must compromise. This e-guide discusses how to make a value case for DR, along with a series of low-cost strategies for planning, implementing, and testing virtual DR plans.

Posted: 27 Jun 2011 | Published: 24 Jun 2011

EGUIDE: Server virtualization promises to significantly increase the value proposition of the data center in the small to medium-sized market. Access this expert resource from the editors at SearchStorageChannel.com to learn about all the available options for disaster recovery.

Posted: 22 Jun 2011 | Published: 22 Jun 2011

EGUIDE: This SearchStorage.com E-Guide focuses on retention issues that can’t be ignored, how to go about aligning your data protection strategy with business continuity, and leveraging overlooked backup strategies to your advantage. Download this informative e-guide to learn more!

Posted: 18 May 2011 | Published: 18 May 2011

PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT: The biggest security issues are the ones that you don’t know about – and the reality is many businesses don’t truly know where they stand. Check out this presentation transcript from a SearchDisasterRecovery.com webcast to learn about today’s biggest security concerns and best practices for protecting your IT center.

Posted: 17 May 2011 | Published: 17 May 2011

PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT: What about cloud for disaster recovery? Read this presentation transcript to learn how to set up cloud DR, the strengths and limitations of this technology, a list of vendors currently offering the service and more.

Posted: 25 Apr 2011 | Published: 25 Apr 2011

WHITE PAPER: It’s often difficult for businesses to evaluate competing virtualization platforms. Despite superficial similarities, different providers' platforms are far from identical. This paper compares the VMware vSphere virtualization platform to two alternatives, focusing on features and issues.

Posted: 19 Apr 2011 | Published: 19 Apr 2011

CASE STUDY: After an outage occured, shutting down email and document management systems, management at Graydon, Head & Ritchey lawfirm decided to invest in a new IT infrastructure. Read this case study to learn how VMware helped the firm virtualize key applications and centralize management of their virtual environment.

Posted: 19 Apr 2011 | Published: 19 Apr 2011

PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT: This presentation transcript discusses Telecom Service Provider Transformations as well as business strategies and models to improve quality of experience, including customer experience management planning and the role-managed services can play in this transformation.

Posted: 14 Apr 2011 | Published: 14 Apr 2011

EZINE: CIOs are finding that effective BC and DR plans hinge on an understanding of emerging technologies and confidence in their supply chains. This white paper will look at the ways in which companies can implement some of these new technologies to help improve everyday business.

Posted: 11 Apr 2011 | Published: 11 Apr 2011

PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT: Server virtualization presents some interesting implications for disaster recovery (DR), including cost reductions and increased recovery times. In this FAQ, business continuity expert Paul Kirvan discusses the various server virtualization approaches that are effective for DR and how they benefit failover and failback processes.

Posted: 07 Apr 2011 | Published: 07 Apr 2011

WHITE PAPER: Intel® Virtualization Technology FlexMigration allows virtualization software vendors to deliver live migration solutions across different generations of Intel® Xeon® processor-based servers. This white paper explains how Intel VT FlexMigration works, including how and why some instructions are masked by the hypervisor while others are not.

Posted: 18 Mar 2011 | Published: 18 Mar 2011

WEBCAST: For small and midsize businesses, the new VMware vSphere 4.1 delivers higher efficiency, greater agility and more freedom of choice than ever before, making it easier than ever to optimize existing assets and get always-on IT with comprehensive, cost-effective backup and recovery. View this webcast to learn more.

Posted: 04 Mar 2011 | Premiered: Mar 4, 2011

WHITE PAPER: This white paper outlines each of these issues, why they are important for SMBs to address and how to resolve them while maximizing business continuity and minimizing IT resources necessary to accomplish the demands of maintaining Windows servers.

Posted: 18 Feb 2011 | Published: 18 Feb 2011

EZINE: If there’s an overhyped term today, it is cloud computing. Cautiously optimistic might be one way to describe some of those attitudes presented in this edition of Enterprise CIO Decisions: Many see the benefits, but costs, risk and uncertainty still prevail. At the very least, cloud computing is forcing IT professionals to innovate.

Posted: 15 Feb 2011 | Published: 15 Feb 2011

PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT: Check out this presentation transcript from IBM as it discusses the advantages of implementing a holistic approach to data risk management, and provides both the “why” and “how” to begin putting a holistic data risk management program to work in businesses of all sizes.

Posted: 31 Jan 2011 | Published: 31 Jan 2011

WHITE PAPER: When it comes to successfully recovering from a serious incident the Australians were the least confident. Just 22% of Australian businesses felt that they would be able to recover quickly in the event of downtime, compared to a global average of 50%.

Posted: 30 Jan 2011 | Published: 28 Jan 2011

WHITE PAPER: In addition to implementing strategic initiatives, IT has the basic function of keeping workers productive. With many enterprises migrating to Microsoft Windows 7, it is important to consider a backup provider that supports Microsoft’s latest platform. Read this white paper to learn more.

Posted: 26 Jan 2011 | Published: 26 Jan 2011