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Business Continuity vs. Disaster Recovery: What’s the Difference?

Pure Storage

Business Continuity vs. Disaster Recovery: What’s the Difference? by Pure Storage Blog When the unexpected happens, poorly prepared businesses run the risk that everything could come to a screeching halt. This includes minimizing downtime, minimizing data loss, and ensuring business continuity.

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Business Continuity vs. Disaster Recovery: What’s the Difference?

Pure Storage

Business Continuity vs. Disaster Recovery: What’s the Difference? by Pure Storage Blog When the unexpected happens, poorly prepared businesses run the risk that everything could come to a screeching halt. This includes minimizing downtime, minimizing data loss, and ensuring business continuity.

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Drones – A New Business Continuity threat

Plan B Consulting

This got me thinking about how the use of drones could impact business continuity. In the 9/11 attacks, planes were used as bombs, but there was an immense amount of preparation work, including learning to fly airliners by the attackers before they could implement their attack. This week, a drone attacked a U.S.

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Choosing the Right Crisis Leader

BryghtPath

The aftermath of this incident resulted in a significant reputational crisis for United Airlines. In April 2017, the internet exploded with the viral video of a passenger being dragged from United Express Flight 3411 by security and law enforcement officers in Chicago after refusing to exit the aircraft after the flight had been overbooked.

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The British Airways IT Outage – An Alternative View

Plan B Consulting

I noticed, with slight amusement, that every business continuity and IT armchair pundit have taken to social media to express their outrage. British Airways is a reasonably well-run airline and their profits last year were twice of similar sized airlines, so they must be doing something right.

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The British Airways IT Outage – An Alternative View

Plan B Consulting

I noticed, with slight amusement, that every business continuity and IT armchair pundit have taken to social media to express their outrage. British Airways is a reasonably well-run airline and their profits last year were twice of similar sized airlines, so they must be doing something right.

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Leading by (Bad) Example: Companies in the News Show What Not to Do 

MHA Consulting

Two of the latest are Ticketmaster and Southwest Airlines. We’re also familiar with the tendency of many executives to treat business continuity as an inconvenience and the threat of disruptions as too slight to worry about. These helpful negative examples come to us courtesy of Ticketmaster and Southwest Airlines.