Therefore,
disaster recovery and business continuity solutions have become even more crucial." Zeineldin's comments come ahead of eHosting DataFort's participation at MEFTEC, the world's premier financial technology event for emerging markets that focuses on the Middle East, Africa and South Asia (MEASA) region.
This study provides best practices and recommendations to help contact centers enhance their
disaster recovery and business continuity plans.
Even if an IT risk assessment stops short of making recommendations, the client has received various benefits, including identifying conditions for inherent risk of loss, corruption, incompleteness, theft or misappropriation of critical information; providing the first step in building walls of defense around its critical information; documenting its IT infrastructure; providing the foundation for a
disaster recovery and business continuity plan; and aiding in the performance evaluation of the technical support personnel.
Disaster recovery and business continuity should be seen as an opportunity rather than a doom and gloom scenario, according to David Pledger.
Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity uses: Appliance-driven NFM approaches can establish an infrastructure-wide management framework between two or more locations, replicating data sets, creating multiple access paths and ensuring file availability to create comprehensive
disaster recovery and business continuity solutions.
In a late-2001 survey by Gartner Inc., technology-purchasing decision-makers cite
disaster recovery and business continuity among their top five priorities.
The Florida Business Continuity Center (FBCC, www.fbccdr.com) was established to meet the
disaster recovery and business continuity needs of organizations throughout Florida.
But many savvy technology executives have realized that bringing critical
disaster recovery and business continuity functionality in-house is significantly more effective and often markedly less expensive than the traditional approach of outsourcing disaster recovery to a hotsite.
Martin Hingley from IDC thought businesses were still wary of spending money on
disaster recovery and business continuity since it was usually not a priority for businesses until they had been affected.
* The August 2003 blackout reminded CIOs that
disaster recovery and business continuity need to be at the top of their priority lists.
IT now has the responsibility to protect that asset through the development and execution of well-designed and thorough
disaster recovery and business continuity plan.