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CONTACTS
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Business Continuity
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 Hurricanes
Deliver ‘Worst-Case Scenario’
The U.S. Gulf Coast suffered a one-two punch when Hurricanes Katrina
and Rita barreled onto the populated coastline. Katrina, which struck
August 29 near New Orleans, packed the biggest blow, with extensive
damage along 90-miles of coast in Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama.
Rita roared ashore near the Texas/Louisiana border on Sept. 24, causing
flooding and wind damage.
By JANETTE BALLMAN
First
on the Scene
Brandon Bond, team member with the Disaster Medical Assistance Team
CA-6 gives a first-hand account of his experiences. DMAT is a volunteer
team organized under the National Disaster Medical System and operates
under the U.S. Department of Homeland Security to provide emergency
medical care during times of disaster.
By JANETTE BALLMAN
A
Practical Tool For Managers
This article presents the concept of perceived organizational business
continuity readiness and the results of a research project that developed
a tool to measure it. The questionnaire developed in this research is
an assessment tool that managers can use to evaluate perceived readiness
at both a firm level, and potentially, at an industry level.
By TERRI KIRCHNER, MBCP & KIRAN KARANDE, Ph.D.
 When
Private Plans Go Public
DRJ’s pages have been the venue for plan security on several occasions,
but none of those occasions addressed the “public plan,”
a plan which meets client and regulator requirements but maintains the
level of secrecy needed to protect the Company As of the world from
prying eyes.
By JOHN GLENN, MBCI
Business
Continuity Conundrum
Unfortunately, most companies think their existing data storage and
back-up plans will protect them from massive data loss. Too often companies
are caught unprepared or unaware of a hole in their process. When faced
with data loss or corruption, the back-up archive is one of the most
appreciated and loved objects in the entire universe. However, if backups
only extend to the perimeter of the enterprise data center, a rude awakening
may not be far off.
By VICKIE MALIS
How
to Write Effective Disaster Recovery Procedures
So the honor of writing recovery procedures for your application, database,
or platform system has been bestowed upon you. Congratulations! It is
an honor to be asked to write procedures for something that is deemed
so critical to the lifeline of your organization.
By CHADWICK TAYLOR, CBCP, CRP
 Can
Your Recovery Plan Beat the Flu?
The flu season, influenza, it seems common and unquestionably less dramatic
than something as dreadful as a terrorist attack. It seems like everyone
gets the flu from time to time. And sometimes it seems to be worse than
others.
By GREG HOLDBURG, MRP
California
Tsunami Warning
After a series of earthquakes and a tsunami warning in June hit the
California coast, the panic that followed was a wake-up call. Large-scale
disasters and emergencies can happen at a moment’s notice.
By CINTA PUTRA
Issues
and Challenges From Indian Ocean Tsunami
According to the BBC, this disaster which cost about 300,000 lives has
affected many countries. Indonesia, Thailand, Sri Lanka and Maldives
were badly hit as highly-populated coastal areas were swept away by
the giant waves. According to Gerhard Berz, a top risk researcher at
Munich Re, the tsunami devastation has caused economic damage of more
than $10 billion euros.
By MASLINA DAUD, ABCP
Fall
World 2005 is an ‘Overwhelming Success’
More than 1,200 attendees joined expert speakers and exhibitors for
a total of 1,600 people at the Sheraton San Diego Hotel and Marina for
the Disaster Recovery Journal Fall World 2005 conference Sept. 18-21.
By JON SEALS
Debunking
Common Myths of High Availability
These false impressions persist partly because hardware vendors continue
to aggressively press their own agendas. Erroneous messaging has led
many IT managers to believe that clustering applies only to mission-critical
applications. The truth is that if your organization cannot tolerate
even minutes of planned or unplanned downtime for its business-critical
applications, there are powerful high availability solutions within
economic reach.
By MATT FAIRBANKS
Wireless,
Satellite Options Offer New Solution
If there is a common theme running through the central elements of disaster
recovery programs (emergency medical care, law enforcement, damage assessment,
delivery of supplies, temporary housing, initial recovery activity,
etc.) it is the need for effective communication between all responsible
parties. Yet communication networks are often rendered useless by the
disaster, hampering, if not crippling, recovery efforts. By PETER CARIDES
The
Key to ILM is Cost-Effective Backup
Information lifecycle management (ILM) is a relatively young concept
and the industry will continue to encounter pitfalls as ILM solutions
develop. As it stands at the moment, ILM has two aims: to reduce administration
costs and to make the most efficient use of storage hardware. But in
order to achieve these, ILM needs to rely on an ILM-aware backup system.
By ERAN FARAJUN
What
is Information Lifecycle Management?
Information lifecycle management (ILM) represents a major shift in creating
and managing a storage infrastructure and its data. All data maintained
on storage networks has a pre-defined lifecycle. The lifecycle identifies
the way information is stored in an organization from its inception
to its eventual archiving and removal. By KEN BARTH
2005
PC/Mainframe Software Survey (PDF)
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