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June 2008 Issue
BCM Health Checks
Recovery SIte Invocations
IT DR Technologies

Our Services

Crisis Management
Business Continuity
Disaster Recovery
Security Management
Risk Management

See our website for full details
BCM Health Checks

When was the last time you undertook a health check of your Crisis Management, Business Continuity or IT Disaster Recovery plan(s)? 

Maybe it's time to have one conducted by one of our experienced consultants?  
 
Whether it's a review of your existing plan documentation, assessment of your recovery site arrangements, or a workshop of continuity requirements with your business units and staff, you will receive a professional assessment of your current situation, recovery readiness and remediation plan.

               
Contact us on  1300-BCPLAN or by email to info@opscentre.com for more details on this offer.

Industry Links

Dear                                    Rod Crowder, OpsCentre

We were interested in Sungard recently releasing a breakdown of all of the invocations of their recovery sites since 1995.  The fundamental trend being that hardware failures have declined substantially in recent years, whilst environmental issues are becoming far more prevalent.

Sungard Invocations
 
Invocations due to flooding and power failure and are on the increase, the latter being caused by increased requirements for High Availability data centres and changes in technology strategy such as server consolidation, blade arrays and VMWare.

A full copy of Sungard's insights into the changing nature of risks and business continuity response is available at www.a2areport.co.uk.

I hope you find it of interest.

Warm regards

Rod Crowder
Ph: 1300-BCPLAN / +612 8251 0080
Mb: 0412 337 677
rod.crowder@opscentre.com

ITDRVendorReportIT Disaster Recovery Technologies - Vendor Report

IT Disaster Recovery (ITDR) has become the catch-phrase of technology and services companies over the last few years; forming the backbone of many business continuity strategies. 

Vendor solutions to meet ITDR needs have developed rapidly over the last few years, and fit many different categories: extending from basic tape and disk backup technologies through to high-availability data centre solutions, data mirroring and virtualisation.  Due the complex and varied scope of ITDR requirements, almost any company can justify their inclusion to the list of suppliers.

This report profiles a selection of technology vendors that provide effective solutions to meet various IT Disaster Recovery needs; we hope that it will save you some precious time in your next search for Disaster Recovery products and services.

The first edition of this report has just been released and is available here (pdf format, 17 pages, 706kb).
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Training Courses and Workshops in conjunction with:
 
  • Workshop - IT Disaster Recovery Testing
  • Training Course - An Introduction to IT Disaster Recovery
OpsCentre is partnering with Continuity Forum to deliver two new IT Disaster Recovery workshops throughout Australia.
  • The next 'Testing IT Disaster Recovery Workshop' is planned for Adelaide, date to be confirmed by Continuity Forum.  For the workshop brochure, click here.
  • Introduction to IT Disaster Recovery course will be held in Canberra on 25th September. For the course brochure, click here.
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