DISASTER RECOVERY 
JOURNAL

P. O. Box 510110
St. Louis, MO 63151
(314) 894-0276 
Fax: (314) 894-7474
Internet www.drj.com 
E-mail drj@drj.com

PUBLISHER &
EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
Richard L. Arnold, CBCP
richard@drj.com

SENIOR EDITOR
Janette Ballman
janette@drj.com

MANAGING EDITOR
Jon Seals
jon@drj.com

ASSOCIATE EDITOR
Ed Pearce, CBCP
ed@drj.com

COPY EDITORS
Richard Sandhofer
richards@drj.com
Pamela Clifton
pamelaclifton@hotmail.com

ADVERTISING 
Robert Arnold
bob@drj.com

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Corporate

President/CEO
Richard L. Arnold, CBCP
richard@drj.com

Vice President 
Robert Arnold
bob@drj.com

CONFERENCE COORDINATOR
Patti Fitzgerald, CBCP
patti@drj.com

CONFERENCE REGISTRAR
Merce Knese
mercedes@drj.com

CIRCULATION
Laura Baugh
laurab@drj.com

EXECUTIVE COUNCIL
Jeff Dato, MBCP, KPMG
John Jackson, IBM
Edward S. Devlin, E.S. Devlin & Associates
James Hammill, CBCP, JMH Consulting Inc.
Pat McAnally, SunGard Availability Services
Brian Turley, Strohl Systems
Belinda Wilson, Hewlett-Packard


INTERNATIONAL
CONTACTS
England: Thom Hetherington
Business Continuity 
Phone: 0161-237-1007
thomh@tempus.demon.co.uk

Australia: Anthony J. Harvey
Journal of Business Continuity
Phone: 0011-613-953-0055-8
fax: 0011-613-953-0528
sector@notability.com.au

Japan: Shinji Hosotsubo
Quake Japan Co., Ltd.
Phone: 03-3215-2880
fax: 03-3215-2881

Brazil: Jose Carlos Ferreira
Disaster Recovery Mercosul
Phone: 55 11 3666-9506
conc2000@uol.com.br
www.drms.com.br

Traceability
Diseases like Mad Cow and recent terrorist attacks have sparked traceability programs around the world. But what are the implications for data storage and retrieval of all of this traceable information?
By DR. THOMAS D. PHELAN

The Business Value of Data
Currently, there is a limited set of tools available to help identify the value of an organization’s data, monitor its useful value, and migrate data to storage that is commensurate with its present value.
By MICHAEL CROY

Business Continuity Planning After Sept. 11
This 2004 survey offers a unique “snapshot” from disaster recovery experts while providing the basis for comparison with an earlier survey, taken just days after the Sept. 11 attacks.
By ROBERT C. CHANDLER, Ph.D. & J.D. WALLACE, Ph.D.

Study Surveys Businesses Affected By WTC Attacks
The most significant observation in the study was that the organizations increased their business continuity spending between 2001 and 2003.
By KEVIN C. MILLER

Blind Date with a Vendor
Lack of research puts many companies in a “blind date” situation when dealing with vendors. By ANTHONY J. DREW

Ready for Section 404?
The cost of complying with the Sarbanes-Oxley Act is surprising many companies, especially mid-size.
By LARRY BAYE

The BCP Role
When organizations insist on “marrying” other areas of expertise to BCP, they can severely limit, if not eliminate the ability of a recruiter to provide suitable candidates. By TODD YOUNG, CBCP

Tracking the Storm: One County’s Story
Located only 30 miles from the Gulf of Mexico coastline in Florida, the Leon County Sheriff’s Office Division of Emergency Management remains proactive when it comes to hurricane season. By ROBERT GORDON

Weathering the Storm
Paxson Communications uses tape to protect its television advertising revenue. By STEVE BERENS

Sports Teams Take Second Look at Crisis Preparedness
Like any responsible corporation, a professional sports franchise must be aware of potential crises. As such, management teams in the professional sports industry must continually refine their processes, procedures and protocol to ensure the team, front office, and the brand can survive a crisis event.
By TED BIRKHAHN & CHARLES HARRIS

Simulating Disaster Scenarios
Simulating scenarios afford individuals to get acquainted with distant realities. By KEVIN C. DESOUZA

Simple Tactics to Avoid the Pitfalls
These basic steps can help you organize your BCP and help avoid the pitfalls. By KIM SACHAU, CBCP

Volunteer to Expand Your Knowledge
As I studied the 10 professional practices, I realized my “day job” didn’t address beyond one or two practice areas. I aspired for a CBCP certification, so I found other ways to expand my career. By BRIAN JILEK

Six Lessons Learned by a New BC Professional
The saga continues for the “New Kid on the Block,” learning six important lessons after his first plan was completed. By MICHAEL BARBARA, CBCP

A Model to Mirror Large Files on Internet
This article, supported by the Natural Science Foundation of China, presents a special mirroring model which is applied to improve the backup efficiency of large files.
By KUI ZHAO, TAO LI, PING YANG, XIAO-JIE LIU & LIHUI WANG

Apologetic Anemia in the Business Continuity Industry
Despite the fact that Sept. 11, 2001, had given all emergency and business continuity professionals a reason to be evangelical about their profession, we still sadly lack a voice in the boardroom.
By DAMIAN WALCH

You Can Never Go Home Again
The bad news is that their recovery planning didn’t give much thought to how operations would be brought back to the home office. By LARRY WISNIEWSKI

Traditional Business Continuity Views Have Changed
Business continuity is no longer a stranger to change. No longer a “techie” responsibility handled by the IT department, effective business continuity planning is the responsibility of each business unit.
By MARTY KOWALSKI, MBCP

Building a Business Case for Disaster Recovery Planning
Financially justifying requests to senior management for the funding of recovery planning and testing can prove a difficult task. By KEVIN RODEN

Mass Exodus: The Movement of Data Off Site
Executives are challenging IT organizations to find ways to better protect their mission-critical data more cost effectively, and off site. By FRANK BRICK

The Key to Disaster Response
This essay will go beyond just describing the incident command system by explaining why it is likely to work well and what are some of the obstacles to its implementation. By PETER W. BLAICH

ANNUAL SURVEY
2004 Alternate Site Survey (PDF Format)

• From the Publisher’s Desk
• Editorial Advisory Board
• The Perspective of Ed Devlin 
• Executive Council - by Jim Hammill
• PPBI
• DRI Interational
• News Briefs 
• Classifieds

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