Business Continuity

Business performance depends on information technology more than ever before. Availability, security and compliance issues can have a big impact on your ability to achieve business and operational success. No organization can afford the impact a site outage, disaster or major interruption will have on their business.

In fact, evidence from the Business Continuity Institute shows that every five years 20% of companies will suffer a major disruption through fires, flood, storm, power failures, and hardware/software failures. Of those companies that do not have business continuity plans, 80% fail within 13 months of such an incident.

To remain competitive and address the needs of employees, customers and partners, companies must ensure their key business processes are stable and continually available.

Financial Services Technology provides executives with a road map for successful Disaster recovery and business continuity planning. Importantly, Financial Services Technology will demonstrate how Business Continuity and Availability solutions help improve business performance and protect corporate reputation by delivering resilient IT environments.

Under Discussion

• Types of risk: dealing with known and unknown threats
• Business continuity in complex environments: management software for business continuity
• Architectures for business continuity: high availability in the data centre
• Outsourcing: taking the risk out of business continuity
• Networks: the forgotten aspect of business continuity
• Mitigating the effect of catastrophe: practical steps before and after

Roundtable Invitation

Financial Services Technology will be putting together an exciting and influential roundtable of elite vendors to discuss the main focus areas. Questions will be put to C-level executives leading these individual companies so that they may address the concerns of Europe's financial sector.

The roundtable will be moderated by our journalists and allows the best and brightest to educate our audience through their thought leadership and best practices.