This is the view of VMware’s senior systems engineering manager and lead technologist, Ian Jansen van Rensburg, who stresses that an integral part of being prepared is having robust business continuity and disaster recovery in place.

“Companies are still not prepared enough and need to take a holistic, but thorough approach to business continuity,” he says. “It’s imperative that they analyse from the device at the end to the datacentre and back again.”