Roundtables

Keeping business as usual

There are many ways a company can be brought to its knees, hence the need for business continuity management.

24 August 2015

"Never was anything great achieved without danger,” wrote the Renaissance philosopher Niccolò Machiavelli. Business as a rule understands this: there is no reward withoutrisk. Yet, that’s not the type of risk keeping business leaders awake at night. Instead, that age-old concern – keeping the lights on – sits at the forefront of executive nightmares.

According to an EMC survey, nearly three quarters of local companies are not confident of fully recovering from a disaster. It’s a real threat: more than half the companies surveyed suffered downtime or data loss in the previous year.

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