Data Protection 360 
by Dan Blacharski
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It's time to give your data the protection it deserves. This blog explores the challenges that organizations face in distributed, multi-platform environments, and provides insight into how to safe guard data through backup, business continuity and disaster recovery. Daily posts about industry news, and trends also provided.
How long can you endure a disruption?
Okay, all you Yankees, I'm going to talk again about the British Standard 25999, or British Standard for Business Continuity again. But before you click somewhere else, let me remind you that even if it doesn't apply directly to you, it still has some very useful information that pertains to everybody on both sides of the pond.
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Disaster planning: Raiding the vending machines
In my unofficial, decidedly unscientific poll, I asked "what's in your disaster recovery plan?" Here's the results. Thirty-nine percent said they have backup software with off-site storage, and a surprising 18 percent responded that they didn't have one at all.
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What is BS 25999?
The British Standard for Business Continuity (BS 25999), launched in 2007, was designed to provide a standard approach to business continuity, and to establish a way of assuring business continuity management all the way down the supply chain. In the US there is no equivalent.
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Testing the business continuity plan
The business continuity plan may be backed by good technology and written documentation, but unless it's brought out and tested every now and then, there is still a risk that everything may not work as it should when a real emergency does occur.
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