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26 March 2010
High praise for Continuity Coach.com
The Pharmacy Guild of Australia (PGA) selected Continuity Coach.com to satisfy Department of Health & Ageing requirements to provide a Business Continuity Plan - pandemic influenza, for pharmacies in Australia

Pharmacies are critical health care providers & the prospect of the return of the H1N1 influenza (Swine flu) prompted action by the Department of Health & Ageing.

The PGA have been fully satisfied with their choice of Continuity Coach.com following its introduction by the PGA in March 2010 - see Testimonials at this web site for the full testimonial from the PGA.

19 March 2010
SME disaster recovery practices surveyed
63 percent of European organizations take a day or more to recover from system downtime, according to research from Acronis. The research questioned small and medium sized organizations and found that only 10 percent of companies are confident that they could recover their systems within an hour after a disaster such as a hardware crash or computer virus has struck.
Companies are living dangerously when it comes to backup and recovery processes. A quarter of companies (25 percent) still back up their PCs and laptops manually, but more concerning is that a fifth (19 percent) do not carry out backups on these individual devices at all. When you consider that up to 60 percent of corporate data is held on workstations, as opposed to being backed up to a server, organizations are putting their critical information at risk every day.
UK firms in particular are far less likely to backup workstations than their French and German counterparts, with 38 percent of UK firms failing to backup workstations at all.
The survey was conducted by Acronis and research house Vanson Bourne. The sample consisted of 600 small and mid-market organizations. Respondents were those within the organization responsible for IT.
www.acronis.com

5 March 2010
IT risks increase - survey by Stratus Technologies and ITIC.
The direction IT management is heading in, as suggested by this survey, exposes it to increased downtime risk," said Roy Sanford, Stratus chief marketing officer. "By its very nature, virtualization burdens the underlying hardware by placing more applications on fewer servers. At the same time, server refresh cycles are lengthening. Ensuring uptime reliability, especially in light of executive expectations, has never been a more urgent concern than it is in today's technology landscape.

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