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Contingency plans step up Y2K problem
News Contingency plans to deal with the millennium bug will create more problems than the bug itself, according to research from the Gartner Group. Gartner's latest Year 2000 World Status report says companies are stockpiling, planning to shut factories...
[August 19, 1999, 9:30]
UK firms at risk from telco collapse
News Many UK companies are failing to make contingency plans for their telecommunications services, despite the turbulent state of the telecoms market, according to analysts. However, many companies surveyed had not developed a contingency plan in the...
[August 27, 2002, 9:24]
Action 2000 optimism criticised
News Barnes has tested the contingency plans of a number of local authorities and found that "they wouldn't work because they have been devised in isolation from the outside world". If there is an unforeseen power or communication failure, local...
[October 20, 1999, 14:29]
Port closures mean tech companies miss the boat
News Representatives from Hewlett-Packard and Gateway say their logistics teams had been monitoring the problem for months and have launched contingency plans to offset the lockout. HP declined to discuss the details of its contingency plans.
[October 1, 2002, 11:23]
SCO shaken by 'biggest ever' DOS attack
News In its statement on Sunday, SCO it still "had a series of contingency plans to deal with this problem," but would wait until Monday -- at about 5 a.m. At the time, SCO had said it hoped to keep its Web site running and had contingency plans in place.
[February 2, 2004, 7:15]
Passport needed for mobile phone purchases?
Blog The Sunday Times also reported that Vodafone was making "contingency plans" just in case the government decided to bring in its database and register all mobile users. Vodafone does not support mandatory registration for its pre-pay customers and...
[October 20, 2008, 14:16]
Your worst security threat: Employees?
News The report offers no suggestions to help companies with the threats, but there is a simple tool that companies can use to help build procedures and contingency plans, say experts. Three-quarters of large companies have procedures for logging and...
[April 23, 2002, 11:49]
Q&A: An IT job of Olympic proportions
News It's all about contingency plans, putting together plan B, plan C. We spent the last year testing and testing and testing again, rehearsing, reviewing contingency plans. Think you've got a tough IT project to complete?
[July 11, 2003, 10:50]
Contingency Planning: Meeting HIPAA Security Rule Requirements
White Papers Contingency planning, also referred to as Business Continuity Planning (BCP), is about a coordinated strategy that involves plans, procedures and technical measures to enable the recovery of systems, operations, and data after a disruption.
[October 30, 2007, 21:21]
New Millennium body for the capital
News It is important we have contingency plans in the case of the Underground not working" he added. Contingency planning was a major theme at the London Readiness 2000 City conference last week. Representatives from BT, London Electricity and the...
[December 7, 1998, 15:08]
Cisco and Verizon Help Provide Transport Infrastructure for Renovated "Virtual" Pentagon
White Papers While contingency plans prior to September 11 were valuable, the Department of Defense decided the plans were not enough, and the Command Communications Survivability Program (CCSP), a part of the Pentagon Renovation program, was born.
[August 9, 2006, 0:00]
Preparing the Enterprise for a Pandemic
White Papers An additional distinction needs to be made between the unique requirements of a Pandemic Contingency Plan and typical disaster recovery plans. While estimates vary the extent of the impact of a pandemic cannot be understated.
[September 15, 2007, 1:01]
WorldCom customers urged to hang on
News On Wednesday, Gartner hosted an hour-long conference call with clients, titled "WorldCom's Financial Woes: Make Contingency Plans. For the immediate future, Gartner recommends customers stick with WorldCom, but formulate plans to migrate to new...
[July 4, 2002, 11:33]
Blair stomps on millennium bug
News Responsibility needs to be taken and contingency plans need to be made if those emergency sectors are not provided for," she says. At a London meeting, the Prime Minister outlined his plans to mobilise an army of 20,000 bug busters - young people...
[March 30, 1998, 16:47]
UK firms still don't get security
News This is a shockingly poor result, given the post-9/11 furore about contingency plans and disaster recovery," said Potter. For example, fewer than one in ten companies have tested their disaster recovery plans to see if they actually work.
[April 28, 2004, 10:40]
A Year Ago: Blair stomps on millennium bug
News Responsibility needs to be taken and contingency plans need to be made if those emergency sectors are not provided for," she says. At a London meeting, the Prime Minister outlined his plans to mobilise an army of 20,000 bug busters -- young people...
[March 29, 1999, 7:48]
Flood of England and Wales successfully simulated
News The exercise was designed to test the contingency plans of all groups and authorities in the event of emergency planning," said the spokesperson. The website has a powerful reporting tool that enables us to track the performance of the national...
[June 21, 2004, 14:00]
Vodafone to keep VoIP out of the 3G network
News Mobile operators have more control over access to their networks than ISPs do, and we expect to see more of them following the lead of SFR and Vodafone Germany, by at least making contingency plans to prevent VoIP traffic from obstructing early...
[July 27, 2005, 8:50]
Fujitsu IT staff to hold three-day strike
News Goulden added that dialogue between Fujitsu and Unite is "continuous", and that Fujitsu had made contingency plans to ensure services to its customers were maintained during the strike. The Public and Commercial Services union, which represents 850...
[November 6, 2009, 15:03]
Gartner: IT budgets flat despite economic jitters
News But Gartner warned CIOs to have contingency plans for more IT budget cuts later this year if the economic situation worsens. Mark McDonald, group vice president and head of research for Gartner Executive Programs, said in a statement: "Given...
[April 8, 2008, 9:44]
