Many governing boards over the past year have had presentations and discussions about cyber security but most look at it as an unlikely event. However, it is no longer the case of whether
Published on: March 25th, 2019
Catherine Aczel Boivie
@itbusinessca
When it comes to business disruptions, the adage is only the paranoid survive. Which of course leads one to ponder: when it comes to disaster recovery, are we covered? The Enterprise Connectivity Series
We all hope that we'll never need to use them, but disaster recovery and business continuity plans are a critical part of any organization's strategy. The Enterprise Connectivity Series Future-proofing your business Without
Published on: July 28th, 2015
Lynn Greiner
@lynngr
You’ve crafted a fine business continuity plan for your business, one that ensures that should your organization’s feet be held to the fire, they won’t burn. You’ve followed all the best practices to
Published on: July 24th, 2015
Robert Dutt
@robdutt
While some may use the terms interchangeably at times, disaster recovery and business continuity are most definitely not the same thing. You need to understand the differences, and you need both plans in
No one likes to think about the worst-case scenario but, for a good IT department, business continuity considerations need to be baked into every software and infrastructure decision they make. Luckily, cloud computing
I still remember clearly, and I’m pretty sure you do too, the Eastern Seaboard blackout of 2003. Friends of mine suffered fates as varied as being stuck in an elevator for hours, having
Rogers Data Centres is opening the doors to its third Calgary-based data centre and second Tier III data centre in Canada, the firm announced Wednesday. Dubbed Calgary_DC3, Rogers says the data centre can
Often the employees at a small to mid-size business feel they already have their hands full just running day to day operations. But what if a worst case scenario were to strike? It's
It is said that the only thing that's constant is change. Whether it is technology related or there is a crisis and processes have to change, it involves coming up with a change
Published on: March 25th, 2013
Catherine Aczel Boivie
@itbusinessca
Data backup and disaster recovery is probably something that has been at the back of your mind, and perhaps you've even put a plan in place. Either way, with the Mayans predicting apocalypse
Intuit's Quickbooks Online service suffered an outage this week that left "a small subset" of customers unable to access their data, but the company says the problems with the on-demand accounting software have
Published on: May 25th, 2012
Chris Kanaracus
@itbusinessca
"Everything fails, all the time," so says Amazon.com CTO Werner Vogels. Amazon Web Services itself experienced a much publicized four-day service disruption last April, another outage in August and it had plenty of
Published on: April 27th, 2012
Brandon Butler
@itbusinessca
A lightning strike in Dublin took out a power transformer. In and of itself, that isn't all that unusual or noteworthy, but this particular lightning strike also impacted the backup power systems at
Published on: August 11th, 2011
Tony Bradley
@itbusinessca
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