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Webinar: Business continuity planning

Feb 19 2008

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According to research by the London Chamber of Commerce, some 43 per cent of companies that suffer a disaster, such as data loss, never recover.

In this web seminar from BT Business the panel answers questions on business continuity planning.

Bharat Thakrar of BT, Lyndon Bird of the Business Continuity Institute and Ian Redwood of Talk 4 Business each give their answers to questions on business continuity from the webseminar audience.

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