
Cloud Computing Trends: Where is the Cloud Headed Next?
Cloud adoption has been quick and painless at the consumer level. For instance, everyone’s on Gmail, YouTube, Facebook and Twitter on a
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Cloud adoption has been quick and painless at the consumer level. For instance, everyone’s on Gmail, YouTube, Facebook and Twitter on a

Strengthens business continuity/disaster recovery capabilities Today’s business landscape calls for companies to have reliable business continuity and disaster recovery capabilities. After all,

Even if you’ve invested on virtualisation, off-site backup, redundancy, data replication, and other related technologies, I’m willing to bet your BC/DR program

Many businesses invested heavily on continuity planning in preparation for the Y2K bug. But when the bug failed to bite, general perception on business continuity planning (BCP) gradually saw it as nothing more than an expensive, inconvenient exercise. However, situations like USA’s Katrina and 9/11, the threat of an H1N1 pandemic, and Europe’s unusual winter in 2010-2011,?now stand as wake up calls.

Risk assessment is a vital component in BC planning. Through risk assessment, your company may determine what vulnerabilities your assets possess. Not only that, you’ll also be able to quantify the loss of value of each asset against a specific threat.

Although virtualization is still considered bleeding edge technology by many business continuity specialists, it definitely brings a promise that, once fulfilled, can result in the cheapest, fastest, and most comprehensive solution for business continuity.

Few businesses survive after getting hit by a major disaster. Increase your chances of survival with a disaster recovery plan.

It is necessary to store your data in a replicated setup so that when one section goes down, operations can proceed without interruption.