Load-shedding once again highlights the need for business continuity and disaster recovery.
Companies are urged to reassess data assets, or risk drowning in them.
Incentives and collaboration can boost local business continuity investments.
Healthcare companies must pay special attention to?business continuity?as their businesses deal directly with human life, says?Lynette Smit, business continuity advisor at ContinuitySA.
CEOs must understand their company's risk profile, as some firms are more at risk than others, says Leigh-Anne van As, business development manager at ContinuitySA.
The company has expanded its infrastructure product portfolio with Quorum's hypervisor-based DR solution, onQ On-Site.
Technologies and services focused on incident response - rather than just incident prevention - should be a top trend in 2015, says Dimension Data.
Companies should take stock of how resilient they are, and take steps to improve their ability to prevent disasters, and to recover, should one occur, says Michael Davies, CEO of ContinuitySA.
Organisations that can't provide reliable, consistent availability risk driving users to unauthorised cloud services, says Veeam.
DRAAS empowers businesses to resume operations seamlessly in the event of a disaster, says Quorum.
Having no business continuity plan in place results in chaos and confusion if an incident occurs, says ContinuitySA.
In addition to minimising downtime, Vision Solutions'?Double-Take Availability also protects user and system data.