With an undeliverable mail storm on the horizon, your business continuity strategy should include a postal disruption plan to offer protection in the event of a strike or lockdown. Because, despite our reliance on technology, most businesses still have land mail requirements.
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Almost half of Fortune 1000 companies are using gamification to improve their business. Here’s how IT departments can use it to avert disaster.
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As more business applications move to the cloud, questions of geo-redundancy have become more important than ever before
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Business Continuity Awareness Week is a good opportunity to look back on the Toronto ice storm and other events and assess your degree of readiness
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The drilling and oil well servicing company’s global IT infrastructure manager talks about what they learned from the Calgary flood, the limits of tape and more
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The U.S. government has recently dedicated this time of year to recognize the importance of protecting resources. Here at home, the Calgary flood remains an object lesson
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Today’s IP news roundup highlights some of the latest headlines in convergence, virtualization and more:
One year after Hurricane Sandy, Forbes.com has published a list of things you may be forgetting at your disaster recovery site. The article states, “Most business continuity and disaster...
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RADIO RECAP Vito Mangialardi tells 570News listeners about the importance of a BC/DR plan, and how to choose a provider that can offer the right services for your business
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The recent natural disaster continues to cause problems for residents and companies throughout the city. Use this 5-point plan to prepare your response plan
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According to Dell, you no longer have days – or even hours – to recover from outages, as “Today’s internal and external users have much higher expectations when it comes to server availability: they want to see applications available all the time, 24 hours a day in many cases. This raises...
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According to EMC2 , transforming your backups can lead to “faster product development cycles, accelerated global expansion efforts, improvements in customer profiling and more”. To help you achieve these benefits, EMC2 has published a Backup Game Plan. This ebook explores today’s biggest...
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In honour of World Backup Day 2013, our in-house authority on business continuity outlines an approach that will help IT departments define what needs to be protected and how.
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BUSINESS CONTINUITY AWARENESS WEEK Let’s explore what mid-market Canadian businesses are doing about business continuity planning and the implications for those who forego it
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BUSINESS CONTINUITY AWARENESS WEEK It may sound far-fetched, but threats to IT infrastructure can now include anything from ‘near-Earth objects” to insect infestations. Here’s how you prioritize.
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BUSINESS CONTINUITY AWARENESS WEEK There are great benefits to allowing employees to perform duties out of a home office, but not if it introduces risk to your firm’s operations. Be prepared.
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BUSINESS CONTINUITY AWARENESS WEEK Relocation can become a nightmare if IT departments haven’t thought through an appropriate plan. Four steps you need to consider
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BUSINESS CONTINUITY AWARENESS WEEK: Let’s explore the recent conclave and the importance of planning the key human resources that are essential to your organization’s ongoing operations
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Computing recently surveyed 140 IT professionals to learn about the risks – both real and perceived – that can cause downtime and/or data loss in medium to large enterprise data centres. While the majority of organizations plan for disasters such as fire (75%), extreme weather (62%) and loss of...
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Most data centres are designed to survive the likes of a Hurricane Sandy, but resilience is never a given. Key questions for telecom firms and service providers
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A major U.S. agency says it’s making a big switch in mobile devices, but in a BYOD era, does it really matter?
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Welcome to the Monday edition of the IP news roundup. Here’s what’s happening in the worlds of disaster recovery, SIP trunking, big data, network security and cloud:
During the past 12-18 months, the disaster recovery as a service (DRaaS) market has grown to a $425 million-$450 million...
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Allstream executives are taking to the airwaves as part of an Ontario station’s effort to help SMBs make better use of IT. Here’s a recap of Todd Ramsey’s three key ideas
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Organizations can’t afford to lose customers or worse in the event of a disaster. Don’t let lack of time and resources hold you back. Your pre-planning begins here
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Working with a third-party provider as part of your DR plan can bring benefits but also many changes to existing process and roles within an organization. Think through these issues before making the move
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Excepts from a Quantum Corp. survey. Plus, advice on getting to a “five nines” network, dealing with power outages and more
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