Business continuity planning has evolved from simply something companies hope never to roll out, to an important focus of security operations, according to a new survey from AT&T.
AT&T surveyed IT executives from companies throughout the United States that have at least $25 million in annual revenue to get their views on disaster planning and business continuity trends. Among those surveyed, one-third said it has been necessary to put their business continuity plan into action in the past. The most common scenario for rolling out a BC/DR plan was extreme weather. About 25 percent of companies said weather forced their plan to be put in action. Another 19 percent said power outages at facilities were the cause. More than half of companies in Houston and Miami/Orlando/Tampa, known as regions that have been hit hard with hurricanes in recent years, were likely to have invoked their business continuity plan.(See: BC/DR Challenges in a Hurricane Zone.) That compared with 36 percent nationally.
Sidekick: The Good News & the Bad News Either way you look at it Microsoft Data Center management did not follow standards or best practices in this failure. In which case it makes me wonder more about the outsourcing of corporate data much less personal data.
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