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- Components of a Successful LAN Disaster Recovery Plan
- Technologists often exhibit an unexpected response when asked by management to produce a disaster recovery plan for an automated system. They get genuinely ticked off. In the mind of a good technologist, this request is often interpreted as a signal that management does not trust them to recover in the...
- Tags: LAN, Disaster Recovery Planning, Disaster Resource Guide, Disaster Recovery, Data Management
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- Auditing Your Disaster Recovery Plan: A Closer Look at High Tech Crime Will This Be Your Most Likely Disaster in the 21st Century?
- Everything is high-tech these days including the minds of the world's criminal element. If they find an opportunity, they won't think twice before breaking into a person's corporate computers and possibly causing the person the biggest 'Front page news' disaster that the person could ever imagine. It has already happened...
- Tags: Disaster Recovery Planning, Auditing, Disaster, Person, Disaster Resource Guide, Disaster Recovery, Data Management
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- 10 Tips for Selling BCP to Upper Management
- The number one challenge facing BCP professionals today remains getting upper management buy-in. The events of September 11 have raised awareness of the exposures, but there still are organizations without a commitment to BCP. Often, the reason for this lies in the presentation given to obtain support. There is so...
- Tags: Management, Presentation, Disaster Resource Guide, It Services
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- A Crisis Management Plan: Are You Prepared?
- Most people like to think they do their best work in the midst of a crisis or controversy, when the adrenaline is flowing and they can make vital decisions in a split second. And in fact, many executives do perform extremely well under pressure. But, in a world when the...
- Tags: Decision, Executive, Disaster Resource Guide, Crisis Management
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- Sarbanes-Oxley: Another Driver for Business Continuity Management
- High profile corporate failures have resulted in the creation and subsequent passage of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, SOA. While the introduction of SOA may not be news to the financial reporting world, the approach to compliance may prove compelling to those responsible for business continuity. Aside from requiring corporate officers to...
- Tags: Financial Reporting, Financial, Sarbanes-Oxley Act, SOA, Business Continuity, Disaster Resource Guide, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Financial Planning, Financial Accounting, It Services, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Software, Finance
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- Building Disaster Resistant Communities
- Mitigation is the cornerstone of emergency management. It's the ongoing effort to lessen the impact disasters have on people and property. Mitigation involves keeping homes away from floodplains, engineering bridges to withstand earthquakes, creating and enforcing effective building codes to protect property from hurricanes - and more. Mitigation is defined...
- Tags: Mitigation, Disaster Resource Guide, Strategy, Management
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- Addressing Privacy Issues During Disaster Recovery
- Businesses possess a staggering amount of private and Personally Identifiable Information PII, not only about their customers, but also about their employees. Under which circumstances and representations was this information collected? How is this information being used? To whom is this information being transmitted? How is this information being stored?...
- Tags: Privacy, Business, Information, Disaster Resource Guide, Disaster Recovery, Data Management
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- Nestle USA: Creativity as a Key to Disaster Recovery Planning
- Creativity is not always the basis for planning the recovery of business operations in many companies. At Nestle it was the origin. Like many companies Nestle had to find alternatives for recovering their headquarters business operations. The traditional options were using one of the work area recovery vendors of which...
- Tags: Data Management, Disaster Recovery, Disaster Recovery Planning, Disaster Resource Guide, Nestle S.A.
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- An Update on NFPA 1600, Standard on Disaster/Emergency Management and Business Continuity Programs
- NFPA 1600, Standard on Disaster/Emergency Management and Business Continuity Programs, has gained considerable attention since first published as a standard in 2000. Since then the 9/11 Commission has endorsed it as The National Preparedness Standard. More recently, Congress emphasized the importance of private sector preparedness and NFPA 1600 within The...
- Tags: U.S. Congress, Business Continuity, Disaster Resource Guide, It Services
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- Decision Rights: How to Avoid Confusion or Conflict and Gain Cooperation During a Crisis
- Planning for and managing disasters is very much like a military operation. Those at the front lines and in the midst of battle know the actual conditions with which they must deal. A Corporate Command Team located in the headquarters hundreds of miles away from the incident cannot possibly assess...
- Tags: Business Continuity Planning, Business Continuity, Disaster Resource Guide, Business Security, Crisis Management, It Services, Strategy, Business Operations, Management
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- How to Reap a Return on Your BCP Investment
- ROI for Business Continuity Planning BCP can be improved by looking beyond the simple "Insurance" view. Companies that build multi-functional elements into their BC programs will not have to wait for a catastrophe to see a return on their investment. Business continuity programs are frequently viewed as a cost in...
- Tags: Business Continuity Planning, Investment, ROI, Business Continuity, Disaster Resource Guide, Business Continuity Program, Roi/Tco, It Services, Business Security, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Business Operations
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- Strategic Planning for BCM
- By applying strategic planning methodology when developing business continuity policy and standards, practitioners can gain acceptance of their program proposals at the executive level and enjoy greater program success. Most business continuity practitioners are well aware of recent regulatory initiatives (e.g., Sarbanes-Oxley, Basel II) driving improvements in both corporate governance...
- Tags: Practitioner, Business Continuity, Disaster Resource Guide, It Services, Strategic Planning, Corporate Governance, Strategy, Management, Business Operations, Corporate Law
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- Outsourcing BCP: What's Possible, What's Not
- While it's possible to outsource portions of BCP, it probably isn't practical to consider transferring total responsibility to an outside company because BCP can only work when a company's internal staff is directly involved. Understanding what to keep in house and what to outsource is key to establishing a complete,...
- Tags: Outsource, Disaster Resource Guide, Outsourcing, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting
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- Risky Business: Failing to Assess Supply Chain Continuity
- Considerable time and effort has been spent discussing the need to evaluate the resiliency of a company's supply chain continuum. Business continuity and risk management professionals, citing potential failure scenarios caused by over-reliance on single or sole source suppliers, have attempted to build a business case for redundancy. Although processes...
- Tags: Supplier, Risk Management, Disaster Resource Guide, Supply Chain Management (SCM), Financial Planning, Supply Chain, Channel Management, Strategy, Financial Services, Enterprise Software, Software, Finance, Business Operations, Marketing, Management
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- How to Plan for Enterprise-Wide Business and Service Continuity
- Singular, isolated business or service disruptions as well as large-scale, community-wide disasters have shown that a well designed and tested enterprise-wide recovery and continuity plan must be in place. Ensuring that an organization's assets, operations, commitments and relationships enterprise-wide are protected is a critical element of staying in business. The...
- Tags: Business, Disaster, Disaster Resource Guide, Disaster Recovery, Asset Management, Data Management, Operational Planning, Business Operations
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- How Does Your Company Measure Up?: The Business Continuity Management (BCM) Maturity Model
- When requesting budget to improve a person's business continuity plan, when a client seeks reassurance that the person's company will be able to continue to meet it's needs, when a financial partner needs to know that the person's company is prepared for possible business disruptions, a "Yardstick" by which to...
- Tags: Business Continuity, Disaster Resource Guide, It Services
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Additional Resources
- TechRepublic Resource Guide: Disaster Planning and Recovery
- You may already have a general idea for how you'll keep your organization operating in the event of a disaster. But this free TechRepublic Resource Guide will help you fill in the gaps and create a holistic strategy that includes weighing in human factors and developing a crisis communications...
- Tags: TechRepublic Inc., Disaster Planning, Recovery, Disaster Recovery, Data Management
- White papers 2008-11-07
- Open Source Costs in Schools
- Open Source Costs in SchoolsHogwashOpen source DOES NOT work better. It may save you some money, that is if you have administrators and help desk staff that know open source operating systems and applications as well as they know proprietary products, but other than the Linux operating system, a few...
- Tags: Operating systems, OpenOffice, open source movement, open source, OSS, Linux, OSS alternative
- Discussion threads 2005-11-01
- Reengineered Global Data Center Enhances Cisco Business Resilience and Agility, Lowers Costs
- IT planners have developed a challenging long-range vision of where the Cisco Systems data center should be over the next few years. This vision will guide Cisco's testing and pilot deployment of several new technologies, some of them Cisco solutions and some from other vendors. The goal is a data...
- Tags: Data Center, Cisco Systems Inc., Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management
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