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- IBS Interview: Barry Cardoza, Union Bank
- Barry Cardoza, vice president of business continuity, contingency and disaster planning at San Francisco-based Union Bank and a national voice in bank Business Continuity Planning BCP, is worried. Off late, federally regulated banks must comply with BCP guidelines issued in 2008 by the US Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council FFIEC....
- Tags: Bank, Business Continuity Planning, Business Continuity, IBS Publishing, Business Security, It Services, Financial Services, Business Operations
- White papers 2009-05-01
- Swine flu? What it means for IT professionals
- The US Center for Disease Control CDC has confirmed 64 cases of swine flu in the United States and as other countries including Canada (6), New Zealand (3), the United Kingdom (2), Israel (2), Spain (2), and now Germany have confirmed cases, the World Health Organization has raised the worldwide pandemic threat level...
- Tags: Storage, Flu, Business Continuity, Workforce, CDC, Recruitment & Selection, Workforce Management, Remote Access, Payroll Solutions, Human Resources, Stephanie Balaouras
- Blog posts 2009-04-29
- VMware and CA Solutions for Ensuring Business Continuity With a Shrinking IT Budget
- In today's economic climate, data loss is something your business can't afford. The attendee will learn why companies are turning to VMware and CA for implementing cost-effective business continuity and disaster recovery solutions that combine backup, replication, continuous data protection and failover technologies with server virtualization to protect their businesses.
- Tags: IT Budget, Information Technology, Failover, VMware Inc., Computer Associates International Inc., Business Continuity, Virtualization, Hardware
- Webcasts 2009-04-15
- New Cost Savings and Business Continuity Solutions for SMBs With VMware VSphere 4
- The attendee of this webcast will learn the compelling new IT solutions from VMware that enable Small and Midsize Businesses SMBs to significantly reduce IT costs and improve business continuity. VMware vSphere 4 delivers Always On IT to SMBs by delivering the high availability, performance and reliability of the VMware...
- Tags: Information Technology, Cost Savings, VMware Inc., Business Continuity, Small And Medium Business, VMware VSphere 4, Smb/Sme, Virtualization, Hardware
- Webcasts 2009-04-14
- EMC Celerra Version 5.6 Technical Primer: Business Continuity and Data Protection - Technology Concepts and Business Considerations
- Data is valuable, and it must be protected. Celerra Network Server offers a broad range of data protection options. Depending on the system configuration, backend hardware, backup requirements, RPO, and RTO, there are several features to protect data and implement high availability in file systems. This paper provides a basic...
- Tags: EMC Celerra, Data Protection, EMC Corp., Business Continuity, Celerra Network Server, Disaster Recovery, Backups, Storage, Data Management, Hardware
- White papers 2009-04-01
- Is Your Organization's Business Continuity Prepared for the Next Natural Disaster?
- In a world of uncertainty, there is one thing one can be sure of - nobody can predict when an organization will be a victim of a natural disaster. Storms, fires, floods, hackers, viruses, theft, power outages or even human error can result in critical systems becoming inaccessible and loss...
- Tags: Business Continuity, Perimeter eSecurity, It Services
- Webcasts 2009-03-09
- No Time for Downtime: Disaster Recovery Solutions With VMware and IBM
- In a competitive business environment, downtime is no longer tolerable. Fortunately, with virtualization, disaster recovery and business continuity solutions are now affordable. The presenter of this webcast will learn how an integrated business continuity and resilience strategy will help to minimize downtime and maximize resilience.
- Tags: Downtime, VMware Inc., Business Continuity, IBM Corp., It Services, Virtualization, Disaster Recovery, Hardware, Data Management
- Webcasts 2009-03-05
- CA VMware Tech Brief
- The expansion of IT systems to support the growth of mission-critical business processes and services is fueling two parallel trends. One is the increase in the deployment of new applications and the provision of access to them and their information in ways that are economical, flexible, fast and well managed....
- Tags: High Availability, XOSoft, VMware Inc., Computer Associates International Inc., Business Continuity, Disaster Recovery, It Services, Data Management
- White papers 2009-02-09
- Business Continuity Using HP MSA2000 Snapshot and Volume Copy Software
- This white paper describes the HP snapshot and volume copy products that are software options for the MSA2000 family of products. Snapshots and volume copy can greatly improve data management and data protection. Many customers learn how to recover data easily and quickly, complement existing backup methods, and pre-test software...
- Tags: Software, Hewlett-Packard Co., Snapshot, Business Continuity, Tools & Techniques, Backups, Data Management, Management
- White papers 2009-02-01
- Enhancing Business Continuity in Virtualized Enterprise Environments With EMC SRDF
- Disaster recovery planning is a significant challenge for most organizations. To reduce business risk, plans must be reliable, downtime costs must be minimized, and restart must be smooth. The EMC Symmetrix Remote Data Facility SRDF family of remote replication solutions enables organizations to replicate mission-critical data in EMC Symmetrix environments...
- Tags: EMC Symmetrix, Environment, EMC SRDF, EMC Corp., Business Continuity, Storage, Disaster Recovery, Storage Management, Hardware, Data Management
- Webcasts 2009-01-22
- Business Continuity - Keeping Your Business in Business
- Nearly every aspect of today's business is expected to be available continuously without interruption, regardless of the circumstances. Stuff happens - are you ready?
- Tags: Business, CDW Corp., Business Continuity, It Services
- Resource centers 2009-01-01
- Global Delivery: IBM Business Continuity & Resiliency - Helping Business Stay in Business - Worldwide
- A vendor's delivery capability is one of the most important factors when it comes to the experience and success in achieving Business Resilience. The attendee will learn how IBM has unmatched capability here both in its global reach and the level of service and excellence that the delivery team provides...
- Tags: Business Continuity, IBM Corp., Team Management, It Services, Management
- Webcasts 2009-01-01
- IBM Workplace Recovery: The Human Side of Business Continuity
- It's important to build resiliency into the business operations, but it's just as important to build resiliency into the human capital. One way to achieve human capital resiliency is to ensure that the organization has addressed the people-related components of business continuity planning. This webcast will outline risks related to...
- Tags: Workplace, Recovery, IBM Workplace, Business Continuity, IBM Corp., Human Capital, Human Resources, Workforce Management
- Webcasts 2009-01-01
- Disaster Preparedness: How to Develop a Business Continuity Plan
- Like most business development and major IT projects, a business continuity plan requires an investment of time and resources. Business leaders looking for the greatest return on their investment tend to put off business continuity until disaster strikes - a critical mistake that can jeopardize a business's survival.
- Tags: Business Continuity Planning, CDW Corp., Business Continuity, Business Security, It Services, Strategy, Business Operations, Management
- White papers 2009-01-01
- Best Practices for Implementing Disaster Recovery Solutions in a VMware Environment $
- Can the organization improve disaster recovery and ensure business continuity for its virtual infrastructure by cutting costs, as well as both enhancing disaster response time and reducing the risk of disaster? The attendee of this webcast will explore the storage requirements for consolidating the VMware environment. An EMC network-based replication...
- Tags: Environment, VMware Inc., Best Practice, EMC Corp., Business Continuity, Disaster Recovery, Storage, Virtualization, Data Management, Hardware
- Webcasts 2008-12-04
- Workplace Recovery: The Human Side of Business Continuity
- Natural and manmade disasters have costly, far-reaching impacts on businesses. And organizations of all types are making business continuity plans that protect their data, networks, core business applications and facilities. But it's important to build resiliency into your business operations as well your human capital. This Web seminar on Workplace...
- Tags: Workplace, Recovery, Business Continuity, Human Capital, Human Resources, Workforce Management
- Webcasts 2008-12-03
- Vmware-Making your Business Disaster Ready with Virtual Infrastructure
- Using virtualization for disaster recovery allows companies to extend the disaster coverage to more applications while reducing the recovery time and making the process more reliable. To learn more about business continuity solutions with virtual infrastructure, download the whitepaper.
- Tags: VMware Inc., Business Continuity, It Services
- White papers 2008-11-05
- Vmware-Better business continuity with Vmware virtual infrastructure
- Implementing plans to ensure business continuity for key IT services is an essential requirement for organizations today. Downtime of important applications is a costly proposition and extended downtime can even be fatal—industry research finds that a significant number of companies that that experience extended interruption to IT services...
- Tags: VMware Inc., Business Continuity, It Services
- White papers 2008-11-05
- Business Continuity Solutions: Microsoft SQL Server With Dell EqualLogic PS Series Arrays
- Different types of Microsoft SQL Server data protection are necessary to allow businesses to meet the complex application service level agreements outlined in a comprehensive business continuity plan. Many types of failure scenarios can impact SQL Server database or database application availability. Strategies and techniques for protecting against hardware component...
- Tags: Dell Computer Corp., Microsoft SQL Server, Dell EqualLogic, Server, Microsoft Corp., Business Continuity, It Services, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management
- White papers 2008-11-01
- Network Assessment Helps Re-Architect a Successful Future
- For a company that provides over-the-phone interpretation from English into more than 150 languages 24 hours a day, seven days a week, network availability is extremely critical. The phone-based translation service, which is primarily supported by resources staffed out of call centers, had been experiencing severe issues with the network....
- Tags: Network, Verizon Communications Inc., Business Continuity, It Services, Networking
- Case studies 2008-11-01

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