The topic of business continuity (sometimes understood as high availability of servers and systems) is covered in a number of websites around the world. Here is a brief (and as of now incomplete) list of good resources.
Business Continuity describes the management and avoidance of IT downtime. Here are some sample articles aiming to provide overview about potential costs of such outages. The picture is at best incomplete. Part of the work in the ORBIT project will be to report regularly about numbers, data and statistics helping to understand the costs and potential measures to avoid outages.
Initial numbers: What are the real costs of IT downtime?
Overview: Downtime outages and failures – Understanding their true costs
This post provides a number of angles on the issue, including numerous figures and links.
Venture Beat: The high costs of server downtime
Extensive article, including an infographic providing a general overview.
Blogs covering business continuity
Continuity Central
Extensive portal about the topic.
Desaster Recovery Journal
Started in 1987, this publication provides regularly updated insights.
Business Continuity Management News
A blog, collecting news and links, partially in German, often with helpful links to reports in english.
Business Continuity UK
Provides updates and articles about the topic.
Opscentre
Company blog: Advisor for Business Continuity Solutions, continuously updated)
Mission Mode
Company blog: Crisis communications and crisis management
http://www.acumen-bcp.co.uk/blog/
Company blog: Advisor for Business Continuity Solutions (continuously updated)




