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How essential are you?

It looks like such a benign statement: Please identify the essential personnel in your organization/department/unit. This is usually one of the first tasks in any continuity of operations plan COOP. However, getting people to agree on who is essential as well as which functions are essential is anything but benign....

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Blog posts 2006-07-10

Planning for the unthinkable

The following few paragraphs are excerpted from the 2005 UK Influenza Pandemic Contingency Plan: “Most experts believe that it is not a question of whether there will be another severe influenza pandemic, but when.” -- The Government’s Chief Medical Officer, 2002 The widespread occurrence – and continued spread...

Tags: pandemic

Blog posts 2006-03-27

Be Prepared When Disaster Strikes: Implement a Solid Continuity of Operations Plan With Veritas Cluster Server

Government agencies are charged with storing and protecting the nation's most sensitive medical, financial, and law enforcement-related data. In case of unexpected disaster, one must be prepared to provide continuous backup and fast recovery simultaneously to protect critical data and systems. The attendee of this webcast will learn how to...

Tags: Continuity Of Operations Plan, VERITAS Cluster Server, Symantec Corp., Webcast, VERITAS Software Corp., Government Agency, Server, Security

Webcasts

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Live Webcast: Deliver Continuous Data Protection

Can you really afford any downtime in times like these? In today's tough economic and competitive climate, businesses and organizations need to protect themselves from unplanned downtime that affects their sales, service, customer satisfaction, employee productivity and reputation. Besides business continuity BC, they also need to have a plan and...

Tags: CA ARCserve, Webcast, Continuous Data Protection

Webcasts 2009-10-19

Swine flu? What it means for IT professionals

Swine flu? What it means for IT professionalsSwine Flu is not Bird FluOur company's plan for bird flu is *wildly* different than for this one. We used the 1918 Spanish Flu as our bird flu model, which has a 1% fatality rate for healthy 20-40 year olds.If something like that...

Tags: fatality, H1N1 flu, VPN, What it means

Discussion threads 2009-04-29

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

Reviewing your pandemic plans has just become job #1

Guest post: With the focus on bird flu in recent years, it’s sort of unexpected to hear that the latest pandemic might, in fact, not come from flying descendents of dinosaurs but might be the result of a combination of human, bird and swine influenza viruses that have evolved inside pigs and...

Tags: Job, Outbreak, Flu, Contingency Plan, VPNs, Remote Access, Network Security, Telecommunications, Security, Networking, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-04-28

Doubletake Workload Optimization Suite

Bob Roudebush, Director Solutions Engineering for Double-Take and I had an interesting conversation about some of the issues virtual environments can create for organizations that have allowed their virtual infrastructure to grow organically without a plan. Although Double-Take isn't trying to create solutions for all of the potential issues, they...

Tags: Double-Take, Workload Management, Data Centers, Backups, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Dan Kusnetzky

Blog posts 2009-04-07

Crisis Averted: A Proactive Approach to Mitigating Disaster

Is your business' network - and the IT staff that runs it - prepared to deal with the unthinkable? Is your data secure? Does your current disaster plan streamline your company's operations? Does it resolve your concerns about power and network outages? View this 1-hour Webcast, sponsored by Qwest Communications,...

Tags: CIO, Qwest Communications Inc., Network, Disaster Recovery, Networking, Data Management

Webcasts 2008-11-12

Nortel's rerun: Another purge, another restructuring

Nortel on Monday purged its executive ranks--Chief Marketing Officer Lauren Flaherty, Chief Technology Officer John Roese, Global Services President Dietmar Wendt and Executive Vice President Global Sales Bill Nelson are all leaving Jan. 1--and announced yet another restructuring amid a weak earnings. Continuity and Nortel are two...

Tags: Nortel Networks Corp., Real Estate, Recruitment & Selection, Workforce Management, Payroll Solutions, Business Operations, Human Resources, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-11-10

End of an era: Dell may dump its factories

End of an era: Dell may dump its factoriesRubbed up the wrong way?"The rub: It's unclear whether contract equipment manufacturers would want to buy Dell's manufacturing hubs. Do contract manufacturers really want to take on Dell's capacity?"Don't CEM's want to take on everyone's capacity ... I mean isn't their model...

Tags: Manufacturing, Notebooks, Dell Computer Corp., End-Of-An-Era

Discussion threads 2008-09-05

Business Continuity Planning: Old Concept, New Imperative in Financial Services

Business continuity is no longer just a matter of staying in business. Continuous high performance is now a standard expectation of the marketplace regardless of the natural, technical, or human failures that can beset a Financial Services Institution FSI. Meeting this expectation in a Business Continuity plan BC plan requires...

Tags: Financial Service, Business Continuity Planning, Business Continuity, Business Security, It Services, Strategy, Business Operations, Management

White papers 2008-08-01

Enhancing Operational Recovery with TimeData CDP

When an organization depends on its data, the challenge is to be able to recover that data with the minimal amount of data loss and in the shortest possible time should the unimaginable happen. While most organizations focus on disaster recovery so they can resume operations quickly after a...

Tags: Recovery, Double-Take Software Inc.

White papers 2008-06-01

Questioning IT

Questioning ITLose the rhetoric = better articleYou started out strong, but you lose everyone when you slide into what appears to be a vendetta against CIPS. What does "their Windows only website and addiction to hiding important email in floods of junk" have to do with business continuity? ...

Tags: Data centers, Storage, disaster recovery, Questioning IT, IBM SVC, information technology

Discussion threads 2008-04-18

Questioning IT

Questioning IT This is the 14th excerpt from the first book in the Defen series: The Board Member's IT Brief. This section is concerned with things you should talk to your CIO about - informally, but with attention. Topic one: disaster avoidance Basically...

Tags: CIO, Data Center, Information Technology, Credit Card, Clustering, Membership Database, Data Centers, Backups, Storage, Servers, Hardware, Data Management, Paul Murphy

Blog posts 2008-04-18

Customer Showcase: Louisville Water Developing a Strategic Disaster Recovery Plan

As IT environments grow in complexity, so do the risks associated with ensuring continuous business operations. The presenter of this webcast will discuss how Louisville Water Corporation leveraged EMC's Business Impact Analysis to help develop a risk management and business continuity strategy. The presenter will also discuss the challenges of...

Tags: Disaster Recovery Planning, EMC Corp., Disaster Recovery, Storage, Data Management, Hardware

Webcasts 2008-03-12

NOC-NOC, who's there? Or, "I've seen the thumbwheel and the damage done"

NOC= (Blackberry-maker Research In Motion's Network Operations Center in Waterloo, Ont.) As to the latter portion of this post's title, NOT an original. Readers of a certain vintage may recognize that saying as an adaptation from an old Neil Young song entitled "I've...

Tags: Research In Motion Ltd., RIM BlackBerry, Outage, Tom, Manufacturing, Russell Shaw

Blog posts 2008-02-13

Microsoft's unveils its grand virtualization strategy

Updated 11:00 AM PST: Microsoft will formally unveil its grand virtualization strategy tomorrow at a Virtualization Deployment Summit in Bellevue, WA, highlighted by the acquisition of Calista Technologies, a deeper alliance with Citrix and initiatives for deploying virtualization from desktops to data centers (see also Mary Jo Foley's take on...

Tags: Combination, Desktop, Server, Microsoft Windows, VMware Inc., Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows Server 2008, EMC Corp., System Center, Hyper-V, Money Line, Application Virtualization, Presentation Virtualization, Microsoft System Center, Virtualization, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Hardware, Storage, Dan Farber

Blog posts 2008-01-21

Indonesian Insurance Firm Develops Plan to Serve Clients During Crises

Established in 1989, Allianz Indonesia is a subsidiary of Allianz Group, a leading provider of insurance and financial services worldwide. Committed to building long-term relationships with its customers, Allianz plans to be the number one insurance group in Indonesia. Allianz is committed to providing service beyond customer expectations, even during...

Tags: Crisis, Microsoft Corp., Allianz Group, Insurance, Financial Planning, Microsoft Office, Business Operations, Corporate Insurance, Finance, Office Suites, Software

Case studies 2008-01-01

10 things you should cover in your business continuity plan

Business continuity is much more than just a fancy word for "backup" -- although some organizations treat it that way. A comprehensive business continuity plan BCP provides a roadmap for continuance and/or restoration of mission-critical functions during and after a disaster, such as a fire, flood, tornado or even a...

Tags: Business Continuity Planning, Business Continuity, Deb Shinder, Business Security, It Services, Strategy, Business Operations, Management

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