Risk management

Risk is inevitable. The trick is to understand, mitigate and potentially capitalize on it without being paralyzed by it. The CFOs interviewed for this report do that and reap the rewards.

How prepared is your organization? The numbers on business disruption are not pretty: the cost per week is approximately $836,000 for planned and $600,000 for unplanned, mission-critical application downtime.

IBM is fighting the avian flu threat on several levels. In addition to preparing itself and its clients for the business continuity implications of a pandemic, IBM, through its life sciences and healthcare practices, is working on several projects that relate directly to the threats posed by the avian flu virus.

The more global and 24/7 a business is expected to operate, the more global and "always on" their network must be. Business continuity is about maintaining business operations, revenue and even your reputation.

Banks the world over are reevaluating how they address risk. Findings from an IBM study suggest how banking risk management executives must address the need for change on several fronts.

A policy-based data protection solution that enables companies to rapidly back up data based on business requirements and to quickly locate and restore that data when needed.