Gartner has compiled a menu of best practices to help enterprises better safeguard themselves. Take our test to find out if you're prepared to protect your people, workplaces and intellectual assets. Where do you stand on Gartner's scale of business continuity maturity? Are your service providers focusing on you in their own enterprise disaster contingency plans? Are your key communications links and devices nestled together like eggs in one basket, all at risk to a simple cut-off in the local loop? Are your relationships with business partners, providers and vendors based on good feelings as much as good revenue or profits?

These and other "to-do" items will help enhance enterprise resilience to cope with sudden change.

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 Enterprises that are planning to build resilient communications systems should not overlook critical weaknesses in the vulnerable local connections to their facilities.
30 August 2002 |  John Girard   		 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 


As enterprises outsource noncore business activities to external service providers, these providers' responsibility to deliver key services increases. Enterprises must ensure that providers are ready for unexpected events.
24 August 2002 |  David Neil   Roberta Witty   		 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 


Improving business continuity planning (BCP) is a lengthy process. Enterprises must take a step-by-step approach to appreciate each level's characteristics. The Gartner five-level model shows how.
3 September 2002 |  Simon Mingay   		 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 




Since September 11th, enterprises worldwide have focused on system and service recovery. Now they must address safeguarding the "who, what and where" of the enterprise workplace.
24 August 2002 |  Diane Morello   		 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 


Although there were countless cases of enterprises rushing to help each other in the aftermath of Sept. 11, organizations need to rely on good planning and contracted services.
28 August 2002 |  Donna Scott   Mark Nicolett   		 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 





IBM Business Continuity and Recovery Services IBM offers a wide range of enterprise-level business continuity and information security solutions and services for worldwide multiplatform and IBM infrastructures.
12 July 2002 |  Kristen Noakes-Fry   Trude Diamond  

SunGard Availability Services, Business Continuity Services SunGard Availability Services offers a range of disaster recovery, high-availability and e-commerce solutions, including products and services acquired from Comdisco. Its services are available worldwide.
26 June 2002 |  Kristen Noakes-Fry   Trude Diamond  

Data Centers: Optimal Distances for Disaster Recovery We provide insight into decision making on how far apart data centers should be located for disaster recovery purposes.
14 December 2001 |  Donna Scott  

Negotiating a Sound Business Continuity Contract Enterprises negotiating business continuity services contracts must consider a number of key issues that can mean the difference between a good deal and a bad one.
21 September 2001 |  Donna Scott   Simon Mingay   Roberta Witty  

Jump-Start the Business Continuity Plan: A Checklist The 11 September 2001 terrorist attacks are different in their human and enterprise operational impact from previous disasters. Enterprises must act to ensure their business continuity in the wake of these and possible future events.
21 September 2001 |  Roberta Witty  

What Is Crisis Management? Disasters and other events that stop normal business processes require that management take immediate action to ensure the health and safety of personnel, and the viability of the enterprise.
19 September 2001 |  Roberta Witty