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Articles for the keywords: Disaster Recovery
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13 May 2013
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The Ten Commandments of Disaster Recovery [31054]
CIO Insight, May 13th, 2013
"How much can a flawed disaster recovery and business continuity plan cost you? Try an average of $90,000 for every hour of downtime among corporations, according to Strategic Research. Whether we're talking a hurricane, flood, terrorism or simply a loss of power, CIOs must consider every worst-case scenario and come up with a comprehensive failover and response strategy. In fact, the survival rate for companies without a disaster recovery plan is less than 10 percent..."
- Thou Shalt Analyze Single Points of Failure
- Thou Shalt Keep Updated Notification Trees
- Thou Shalt Remain Aware of Current Events
- Thou Shalt Consider Every Possible Disruption
- Thou Shalt Document the Recovery Process
- Thou Shalt Centralize Information.
- Thou Shalt Create Test Plans and Scripts.
- Thou Shalt Retest Regularly
- Thou Shalt Perform Comprehensive Recovery and Business Continuity Testing.
- Thou Shalt Define Metrics and Distribute 'Scores.'
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13 May 2013
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BYOD Policy: Employee Right to Social Media Privacy Is Paramount [31068]
CIO, May 13th, 2013
"If your company lets employees bring their own devices for work purposes, you'd better have a formal BYOD policy -- one that understands employee privacy rights and employer access rights.
Such policies are often crafted by legal experts for good reason. Violations of certain rights can land companies in hot water. Management consulting firm Janco Associates has created a 14-page BYOD policy template covering everything from help and support to disaster recovery to access control..."
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06 May 2013
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IT Disaster Recovery Plan Best Practices: Starting from Scratch [30950]
Business 2 Community, May 7th, 2013
"The survival of your enterprise depends heavily on an IT disaster recovery plan. Companies weather all sorts of difficulties, from a slow economy to staffing troubles to market fluctuations. A disaster is one thing that can put the breaks on hard; potentially no part of your organization will survive without a plan. While a comprehensive initiative set up beforehand can be effective, the days and months following an event can be a time of reflection and forward looking.
A hard look at your best practices involves several steps..."
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06 May 2013
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Hurricane Sandy Demonstrates Value of Multiple, Active Data Centers [30949]
Information Management, May 5th, 2013
"If you weren't sure about the impact of disasters on business operations a year ago, you should be now.
"This past fall, Hurricane Sandy provided lessons for all of us and demonstrated the value of good disaster recovery and business continuity plans," said Ron DeCicco, Chief Executive Officer, of Pershing, ... at the SIFMA OPS 2013 event in Florida.."
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05 May 2013
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Hadoop Poses a Big Data Security Risk: 10 Reasons Why [30843]
eWeek, April 23rd, 2013
"Information is power, and more and more enterprise IT professionals are tapping into the power of big data to better understand what drives their businesses," comments Chris Preimesberger in "eWeek."
"In the meantime, the information keeps piling up, as data volumes are doubling annually. And roughly 80 percent of that captured data is unstructured and must be formatted using a batch-processing platform...
- Hadoop Wasn't Designed for Enterprise Data
- Hadoop's Security Relies Entirely on Kerberos
- Hadoop Clusters Consist of Many Nodes
- Traditional Backup/Disaster Recovery Isn't the Same in Hadoop
- Hadoop Is Rarely Used Alone
- Compliance Mandates Still Apply in Big Data Workloads
- Cost of a Breach Undetermined
- Big Data Users on Their Own With Security
- Additional Steps Needed to Protect Data Cluster
- Hadoop Users Must Keep Up to Date
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