Are your vendors prepared?

By KingsBridge BCP/on July 12, 2018/in Business Continuity/ tags BCP, Business Continuity Management, Business Continuity Plan / No Comments

A solid business continuity plan is a great start to help you recover in the face of a major incident. But have you considered what happens when there are “No 3rd Party Vendors”? It’s time to check that they have plans in place. Why audit your vendors? A key piece of every business continuity plan […]

Inter Cloud Disaster Recovery

By KingsBridge BCP/on July 4, 2018/in Business Continuity/ tags Business Continuity Plan, Business Continuity Program, disaster recovery / No Comments

NOTE TO READER: This post is a post from guest blogger Chris Lawless, VP of Product Management at Dbvisit. More and more IT organizations are looking at the cloud. There are a variety of reasons why organizations would move their Oracle databases to the cloud. Discover our team’s instructions here. One fear that I hear from many […]

Big or Small? They are all disasters

By KingsBridge BCP/on June 28, 2018/in Lessons Learned/ tags eruption, Eyjafjallajokull / No Comments

big disaster small disaster Eyjafjallajokull

Big Disasters When you think of disasters what do you think of? Flood, massive power outage, fire, and pandemic are probably at the top of your list. That’s ok, big disasters always grab the headlines. In addition, there are all events that we can’t really control; the hurricanes are going to happen, the power does […]

3-2-1 rule

By KingsBridge BCP/on June 20, 2018/in Business Continuity/ tags critical equipment, dbvisit, disaster recovery / No Comments

NOTE TO READER: This post is a post from guest blogger Chris Lawless, VP of Product Management at Dbvisit. No not BLAST OFF!! Backup! Many of you have heard of the phrase before, when it comes to business continuity regarding your Oracle database. But I think it is one of those topics that is so important it needs another […]

BCP Consultants vs BCP Software: Is the field changing?

By KingsBridge BCP/on June 14, 2018/in Business Continuity/ tags business continuity, consulting, software / No Comments

bcp software, bcp consultants, business continuity software, business continuity planning services

I always find it interesting to see how the field of Business Continuity (BCP), Disaster Recovery (DRP) and Continuity of Operations (COOP) is continually evolving. Recently I was asked to comment on the “need” for BCP consultants when a client already has BCP software. Before this month this wasn’t a big deal, but now it’s a […]

Backups vs. Disaster Recovery

By KingsBridge BCP/on June 7, 2018/in Business Continuity/ tags critical equipment, disaster, disaster recovery / No Comments

NOTE TO READER: KingsBridge and Dbvisit have entered into a partnership with guest posts going to each others blog. This post is from Chris Lawless, VP of Product Management. As Dbvisitors, we talk to a lot of people about Disaster Recovery. At conferences, Oracle events, partner meetings and in day to day life we end up […]

Hurricane Season – can your plan survive the storm?

By KingsBridge BCP/on May 31, 2018/in Business Continuity/ tags hurricane / No Comments

It happens every year at the same time. With the weather being unpredictable as it is, you would think that we would know how to weather any storm. Just like with hurricanes, our business continuity/disaster recovery plans are susceptible to the storms that might happen in the day-to-day running of our businesses. Are you watching […]

What Is a Standby Database?

By KingsBridge BCP/on May 24, 2018/in Business Continuity/ tags Business Continuity Program, critical equipment, disaster recovery / No Comments

NOTE TO READER: This post is a post from guest blogger Chris Lawless, VP of Product Management at Dbvisit. What Is a Standby Database? I was recently asked that question on a call. I was taken back a bit because I thought surely ‘everybody knows that’. But it was a good reminder that we should not […]

Don’t get it right, get it written.

By KingsBridge BCP/on May 18, 2018/in Business Continuity/ tags get it written / No Comments

successful business continuity plan kingsbridge is simple and straightforward

This is one of the best pieces of creative writing advice I’ve ever read. Too often, we don’t write “it” down because “it” is not perfect, yet. When I first heard that line, it was in a screenwriting course I took in my spare time. (Back when I had spare time!) The message being that too […]

The Essentials in Business Continuity Program Management

By KingsBridge BCP/on May 17, 2018/in Business Continuity/ tags Business Continuity Program / No Comments

Not long ago I was asked the question, “So we have this Business Continuity Plan. All of the steps are documented, the contact information is confirmed, and the supporting documentation is up to date. Now what?” A great question! And one that requires a little bit of explanation. The Business Continuity Plan (BCP) is simply that; […]

July 12, 2018 Are your vendors prepared? A solid business continuity plan is a great start to help you recover in the...
July 4, 2018 Inter Cloud Disaster Recovery NOTE TO READER: This post is a post from guest blogger Chris Lawless, VP of Product...
June 28, 2018 Big or Small? They are all disasters Big Disasters When you think of disasters what do you think of? Flood, massive power...
June 20, 2018 3-2-1 rule NOTE TO READER: This post is a post from guest blogger Chris Lawless, VP of Product...
June 14, 2018 BCP Consultants vs BCP Software: Is the field changing? I always find it interesting to see how the field of Business Continuity (BCP), Disaster...

Recent Posts