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 Predictive Recovery
Predicting disaster response can never be an exact science. But by including extrapolation and correlation analysis, they can provide visibility into what can happen in a real event. Collecting the right data during a test makes it possible to extrapolate and makes the test results more valuable. By TOM QUATTRINI
Critical Recovery Skills ‘Gap’ Analysis
In the simple form, a recovery skills “gap” analysis matrix identifies all critical recovery skills in a manner that highlights clearly what skills are deemed critical and who supports the skill. A matrix is nothing more than a two-dimensional table. Down one side is the list of critical skills and across the top are the list pf personnel. By JAN PERSSON, CDP, CBCP
The Evolution of Emergency Notification
In a crisis, companies need two things – a plan and a way to communicate. Over the last five years, emergency notification has evolved from a new technology to become the cornerstone of crisis management. At the heart of emergency notification is the assurance that companies can help keep employees safe or directly help their way if they need it. By PAUL D’ARCY
 Think Like A Coward
An important question facing organizations today is how to protect their business from various predictable disasters that can strike at any time? Secondly, who are the best persons to protect your business? What sort of qualification and mindset does one need to work in a DR and BC department? Where and how can you find or identify such persons? By THEJENDRA B.S
Drives Will Fail: What’s Your Back-up Plan?
Drive failure is inevitable, and its causes are many. A few are extreme. I have recovered data from computers that have been dropped, run over, burned, drowned, and shot. But those are the exception. The everyday causes of drive failure are more mundane, breakdowns in the inner workings of the drives themselves, brought on by the very complexity that makes them so powerful. By MIKE COBB
Non-Stop Networking with Satellite Communications
In recent years, organizations including financial institutions, healthcare facilities, large retail chains, and government emergency-response agencies have turned to VSAT communications as a valuable connectivity solution for both disaster recovery and business continuity. By DAVID MYERS
How Good is your Fire Management Plan?
According to a statistical analysis from NFPA in 2005, U.S. fire departments responded to an estimated 1,602,000 fires. These fires resulted in 3,675 civilian fire fatalities, 17,925 civilian fire injuries, and an estimated $10,672,000,000 in direct property loss. What do these fire frequencies mean? Every 20 seconds, a fire department responds to a fire somewhere in the nation. A fire occurs in a structure at the rate of one in every 61 seconds. By SANDESH SHETH, FREYAE JONES & JOSEPH MCHUGH
Procrustus and the Art of Data Protection
If Procrustus were back in action today, perhaps he’d be in the data protection business, offering shelter for corporate data with a one-size-fits-all solution that he so characteristically embraced. His solution would initially appear to be just what the customer needs, but during the implementation, its shortcomings and sacrifices would become apparent. By ERIC LOMASCOLO
 Mock Disaster Drill for Small Businesses
The benefits of conducting mock disaster drills in a small business environment are hard to measure. Some questions you may ask are: Does our small business need to conduct a simulation of a disaster? How complicated can it be for our business to respond to affects of a disaster? Would a catastrophic event severely impair our ability to conduct business as usual? What constitutes a disaster?
By SARA WILLIAMS, CBCP
Reduce MTTR for Applications by Tiering, Archiving
As mission critical business applications continue to generate and collect business data, recovering these systems becomes more of a challenge. The time it takes to restore the application back to the point when the disaster occurred can increase as the size of the database grows. By JULIE LOCKNER
 Evolving Technologies: A Threat To Data Centers?
The data center is a critical element in an organization’s disaster recovery plan, but technology trends are imperiling the stability of in-house data centers. Most companies are acutely aware of the threats to their core IT infrastructure from natural disasters, terrorist threats, fire, sabotage and other phenomenon. However, most do not recognize the equally ominous risk to in-house data centers posed by recent evolutions in technology. By JIM WELLER
Pre-Testing DR Plans to Avoid Business Interruption
Effective IT disaster recovery (DR) and business continuity planning is essential for every business. All businesses depend on their IT services for moment-to-moment operations. So they must all take measures to ensure that those services are not disrupted due to a natural or man-made disaster.
By AMICHAI LESSER
Fall World 2007 is an ‘Overwhelming Success’
 More than 1,200 attendees joined expert speakers and exhibitors for a total of 1,700 people at the Sheraton San Diego Hotel and Marina for the Disaster Recovery Journal Fall World 2007 conference Sept. 16-20. By JON SEALS
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