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Overview: Information Technology

IT and BCP have a long and storied shared history. And while we all know that business continuity is about more than just data and computer hardware, IT still is an integral part of any continuity program. Virtualization, data backup, information security, and cloud computing are just a few of the IT issues with which continuity professionals must contend.

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Is It Time To Shred Your Contact List?
1/30/2012 Continuity Insights: With the explosive growth of social media in the last several years, a new paradigm in contact management has emerged. Each major platform has tools to segment or categorize your contacts into groups as a means to filter and manage specific content that is useful for those members. They also allow for document sharing and real-time status updates on team recovery activities. This is a business continuity manager’s dream.
How To Identify & Update Dinosaur Processes & Technologies In Your Organization
1/16/2012 Continuity Insights: Disaster recovery and business continuity plans are based on evolving technologies and, like the dinosaurs, some aspects of these plans will become extinct. We can dissect a comprehensive BC/DR program into separate categories -- process, technology and communications -- to discover those areas that have become dinosaurs and thus, to a large degree, extinct ways of thinking.
CI Podcast 001: ISO 22301
12/28/2011 Continuity Insights: Brian Zawada, member of the U.S. Technical Advisory Group to ISO Technical Committee 223, discusses the soon-to-be released ISO 22301 standard and answers questions from readers, many of which relate to the new standard's compatibility with current standards like BS 25999 and programs such as PS-Prep.
Why Cloud-Based Disaster Recovery Will Take Hold In 2012
12/19/2011 Continuity Insights: CI speaks with Ziv Kedem, CEO of Zerto, about the surge of virtual servers in 2011, the performance characteristics of Cloud-based disaster recovery and why 2012 will be the year of disaster recovery-as-a-service.
Corporate Sandbox For Employee Devices Is A BC Tool
12/12/2011 Continuity Insights: An upcoming VMware product addresses the increase in employees using their own devices for work and creates a mobile window for applications and data.

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Is It Time To Shred Your Contact List?
With the explosive growth of social media in the last several years, a new paradigm in contact management has emerged. Each major platform has tools to segment or categorize your contacts into groups as a means to filter and manage specific content that is useful for those members. They also allow for document sharing and real-time status updates on team recovery activities. This is a business continuity manager’s dream.