Effective DR like health insurance

Planning, designing and implementing a disaster recovery solution to reduce the amount of recovery time needed after a system outage is a pressing requirement for all businesses, according to eWeek.

IT managers protect themselves from disasters by replicating data to a backup system that takes over when the production system fails, but what if the production system isn't dead, just sick?

When evaluating disaster recovery (DR) technologies, tactics and processes, organisations often perceive the investment as analogous to a life insurance policy. However, DR can be much more than life insurance. A better analogy, and one that is more likely to lead to judicious DR investment decisions, is health insurance.

For the first time an international diploma course in business continuity management will be presented in Doha from 19 to 22 October, to teach a certified methodology for developing business continuity plans, states Arabian Business.

Business interruptions can strike anytime, anywhere. Recent disasters in China and around the world, plus the Internet cable cutting incidents in the Arabian Gulf, serve as reminders that every business and government agency must have a business continuity plan.

Effective business continuity planning ensures that vital business processes continue - no matter what happens. Most organisations in the GCC do not yet have an effective business continuity plan to deal with these emergency situations.

Ectacom has signed a distribution agreement with WinMagic, a provider of data encryption solutions, to distribute WinMagic's SecureDoc full-disk encryption solution in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland, reports RFP Connect.

Ectacom is a value-added distributor of enterprise-class business continuity, IT risk management and security solutions, within German-speaking (DACH region) of Europe.

SecureDoc has been added to eEtacom's 'best-of-breed' portfolio of enterprise-class technologies.