Monthly Archives: March 2014

Backing up critical business functions By backup of functions, we mean operational activities. For example a company selling shoes might have an office with servers and PCs for everyone, plus an e-commerce website and a stock management system. Some of these are time and mission-critical, and some are not. The e-commerce website is time-critical and mission-critical, as it can’t be down for long without affecting the business. The Managing Director’s PC probably isn’t though – he’ll be annoyed if it …

The emotional side of Business Continuity Most business owners these days recognise that loss of business data would be a catastrophe from which they might never recover. Gone are the days when data backup meant making a tape copy before going home (if the man in charge remembered, or wasn’t on holiday) and then that tape getting destroyed in the fire that burnt the building down! Almost all businesses now have an automated backup that streams a copy of the …