Clik here to view.
The Shifting Sands of Business Continuity Management
The sands are indeed shifting in terms of Disaster Recovery (DR) and David Honour raises some very interesting suggestions here as to what is challenging the status quo… The main thrust is coming from...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Looking towards the “Fault Tolerant Society”
Here’s something a little more philosophical than usual – an article about how we need to move from being a fault responsive society to a fault tolerant one. How we can learn from technology to do...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Calculating acceptable downtime
Feeling inclined to take a long hard look in the mirror to determine your maximum tolerable period of disruption (MTPD)? Then this article is for you! At the risking of being slightly irreverent, isn’t...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Fault tolerance = ensuring an error doesn’t turn into a crisis
I like this person – he asks and explains the difference between continuous and high availability. Although the commentary focuses on disaster recovery, there is a different angle here that I would...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Sibos 2010: fault tolerant platforms keeping transactions flowing
Well, it a fascinating show here at Sibos 2010. Its full of banking people, which could be expected I guess. The stands are large and elaborate, so definite confirmation that the payments industry is...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Continuous Uptime: High Availability; Apples: Pears
This one made me chuckle the more I read through it. The title, “How to ensure Continuous Uptime” , was the main attraction. However, reading on it then became apparent that the company in question...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Pace-setting ultra resilient disaster recovery payment solution
Friends in the payment solution and retail sectors may be interested in this story. One of the world’s largest convenience store chains, Sheetz Inc., has cut downtime risks to its point of sales...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Does True Business Continuity Play Second Fiddle to IT Recovery?
I have suspected this for a long time … Whilst customers spend all their energies developing whizzy fail-over systems in case their computer room fills up with water, they miss the main thrust of where...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Can You Trust the Cloud Mega-Companies with Critical Aspects Of Your Business...
If I were running a mission critical service, I would want to control it myself. I am just beginning to wonder if there will be a backlash against the cloud before too long. It would save things like...
View ArticleClik here to view.
It Takes Two …
An article here making an analogy between the lights going out at a football game and a corporate failure. The potential is to affect millions of people (viewers), which, I guess, is another way of...
View Article
