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Responding to Level 2 disasters
News Virus attacks, intruders and other types of Level 2 disasters are extremely difficult to deal with. Generally, you can prepare for them only by implementing proper security measures and by using penetration-testing tools, but when these disasters...
[November 15, 2005, 14:15]
Businesses unprepared for IT disasters
News Other mundane disasters might include the loss of business with a major customer. A third of businesses have no disaster recovery plan in place at all, according to a report produced for AT&T by the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU), while another...
[May 17, 2005, 16:20]
Firms unprepared for telecoms disasters
News Evidence of the lack of a uniform approach to planning for disasters and disruption was provided by the huge variety of terms used to describe such incidents according to the survey. Despite most companies admitting that a telecoms failure would...
[March 17, 2005, 10:15]
Plans fail to prevent 'IT disasters'
News Some of the UK's leading companies are inadequately protected from IT disasters, according to a survey of FTSE100 firms. The most common disasters suffered by respondents included hardware failure (22 per cent) and utilities failure (18 per cent...
[January 9, 2004, 15:00]
Wanted: UK minister for disasters
News The UK Government should appoint a minister with responsibility for managing business and IT disasters across the private and public sector, according to the Business Continuity Institute. Mann said that despite concerns over terrorism, natural...
[March 17, 2005, 15:00]
How to Avoid Public Sector IT Disasters..
White Papers Airtight testing and quality assurance procedures are vital in the public sector's bid to avoid technology disasters and get governmental IT back on track. There seems to be a definitive lack of strategic perception around testing in the public...
[August 22, 2009, 1:24]
Top 10 data destruction disasters
Talkback This seems to be a very baseless article. Such kind of article just wastes time. How can such a article can get slashdotted i dnt understand.
[August 24, 2005, 18:40]
Top 10 data destruction disasters
Talkback that article really didn't do much for me. Try instead: http://rinkworks.com/stupid/
[August 25, 2005, 0:03]
Microsoft extends software assurance to disasters
Talkback Having worked closely with Microsoft for nearly 10 years, I see this as a fantastic solution to a licencing problem previously not catered for by any Microsoft licencing scheme (OPEN/Select/EA). Many of my clients have had to fork out twice for DR...
[May 21, 2004, 10:04]
Plans fail to prevent 'IT disasters'
Talkback The most important aspect of disaster recovery plans, is to flag the necessary steps to take to ensure the business survives. It is always "cure" rather than "prevention", and almost always businesses suffer the "wrong" disaster.
[January 11, 2004, 17:10]
Microsoft extends software assurance to disasters
Talkback What happens if I buy Windows Server, install it twice (once on the "cold" server), then later buy Exchange server. Am I allowed to turn on the cold server to install it there too? And what's the point in having this backup server if it can't...
[May 20, 2004, 11:29]
Verbal Analogy: The top 10 IT disasters of all time
Talkback "The Internet? We are not interested in it" Bill Gates, 1993 Anybody who thinks a little 9,000-line program that's distributed free and can be cloned by anyone is going to affect anything we do at Microsoft has his head screwed on wrong.
[November 23, 2007, 15:13]
Top 10 data destruction disasters
Talkback The writer should be suspended, and the publisher who aproved this junk should be sent back the 4th grade, where this may have been funny/creative. Where were they going with this? P.S.a hard drive can be temporarily brought back to life in the...
[August 26, 2005, 14:35]
Top 10 data destruction disasters
Talkback Poorly researched article, this columnist is lazy and should have their employment reviewed.
[September 1, 2005, 1:00]
Top 10 data destruction disasters
Talkback Special report? Plagiarism? http://www.ontrack.com/newsreleases/index.asp? getPressRelease=5493
[September 1, 2005, 11:55]
And here are some more software disasters...
Talkback It just really grates that the government and other big organisations put our security at risk! Why don't they invest more into security plus their software development and stop giving us all grief. How is the government ever going to win back our...
[November 23, 2007, 8:12]
Top 10 data destruction disasters
Talkback This was the dummest article ever. Bandwidth abuse.
[August 23, 2005, 17:50]
Top 10 data destruction disasters
Talkback gee havent heard all those ones before.really guys you should cut the urban myth bs
[August 23, 2005, 17:50]
Top 10 data destruction disasters
Talkback Freezing a hard drive is a legitimate way to recover the contents, and it works. Just make sure the drive is dry and you have a way to pull the data off immediately. Dry ice works well too, because the drive will stay cold while doing the data...
[August 24, 2005, 14:07]
Top 10 data destruction disasters
Talkback This is one of the stupidest lists I’ve seen on the internet in a long time. I'm surprised that a site as credible as ZDnet would be willing to post this crap. Some of the lists are fun and informative; but this list is full of boring helpdesk...
[August 24, 2005, 17:40]
