The public sector pensions strike planned for Wednesday 30th November will undoubtedly highlight many Business Continuity issues for organisations across the UK.  In particular, businesses may experience significant staff absences due to school closures; exacerbated in some areas by localised suspension of public transport.  One of the biggest impacts though is the predicted severe disruption [...]

In today’s Telegraph the Rev George Pitcher provides a very critical analysis on how the Chapter of St Paul’s has (mis)handled the current problems caused by the anti-capitalist protest outside the Cathedral.  Whilst his perspective is very interesting I strongly disagree with his central assertion that the mistakes that have occurred are “Rooted in a [...]

Millions of Blackberry users across Europe and the Middle East were left without email, web browsing and messaging services following a disruption to the network infrastructure on Monday morning.  The makers of Blackberry, RIM, announced on Tuesday that all services were operating normally again, and apologised for the inconvenience, but problems have persisted for many [...]

In the early hours of Friday morning, millions of users were unable to access Microsoft on-line services because of  a major service failure.  Perhaps the most serious issue was the loss of Office 365 – Microsoft’s cloud-based applications suite.  Following the previous disruptions at Amazon and Google, the incident is causing people to question whether [...]