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Business continuity, Disaster recovery and Resilience

Business continuity, Disaster recovery and Resilience Many companies confuse the 3 terms business continuity, disaster recovery and resilience. To most companies the term business continuity relates to the ability of the organization to continue f... Read >

Disaster recovery and performance testing – 5 points to remember

When looking at business continuity testing and disaster recovery testing, probably the last thing you think about is performance. The system's performance is good or at least adequate in your main office, so why will it be any different in a backup or d... Read >

Load testing to meet your target timetable

People often equate load testing with performance testing. Load testing is seen as a way of answering the question "How fast does the system respond?" This view then tends to mean that load testing is seen as an end of project activity. Only at the end... Read >

Test software scalability from the start – a checklist to avoid disaster.

Systems that work well during development, deployed on a small scale, can fail to meet performance goals when the deployment is scaled up to support real levels of use. An apposite example of this comes from a major blue chip company that recently ou... Read >

Business Continuity Testing

Disaster Recovery is not Business Continuity. Many companies do not have full business continuity plans. They say they do have business continuity plans but they really mean that they have a disaster recovery plan, usually meaning that they have alterna... Read >

Business Continuity Testing starts with the risks

All business continuity analysis should be risk based, and risk prioritised to deal with the important business risks first. This means that any risks to your business need to be identified, examined and dealt with. There are 4 options for dealing with ... Read >