Savvis Communications

Attendees:

Bathon, Anna................. Bank of America McDonald, Pat.................. Fundamentals, Inc.

Bozada, Rick................. Enterprise Rent-A-Car Moore, Rita....................... SSM Health Care

Burnley, W. Graham....... Chesterfield Police Department Morgan, Jeff...................... Avaya

Conrad, Don................... Savvis Communications Paddock, Milan................. Business Continuity Planning, Inc.

Conway, George............. Magellan Behavioral Health Peterson-Swartz, Angie..... Enterprise Rent-A-Car

Dolgin, Harlan................ Blue Cross/Blue Shield of Missouri Rabinowitz, David.............. EMC Enterprise Storage Consultants

Ellsworth, Thomas.......... Enterprise Rent-A-Car Seals, Jon........................ Disaster Recovery Journal

Flanigan, Susan............. Consultant Sease, James................... GKN Aerospace Services

G’Sell, David.................. GE Commercial Distribution Finance Seiler, Don........................ Avaya

Hoffmann, III, James....... Recall Total Information Management Smallwood, Lisa................ Consultant

Joyce, Jeff..................... MO Higher Education Loan Authority Sorber, Terry..................... SSM Health Care

Koehn, Ken.................... SBC Services, Inc. Spears, Keith.................... Enterprise Rent-A-Car

Kriegshauser, Herman.... The Salvation Army Teutenberg, Kathy............. A. G. Edwards & Sons, Inc.

Laney, Merlin................. A. G. Edwards & Sons, Inc. Woerther, Tim................... SBC

Marx, Michael................ Ameren Corporation Woodcock, Gary............... Midrange Computer Solutions, Inc.

Mass, Mindy.................. Enterprise Rent-A-Car

The regular General Membership Meeting of the MidAmerica Contingency Planning Forum was held on Thursday, March 20, 2003, at Savvis Communications, beginning at 3:00 p.m.

President Angela Swartz Peterson welcomed everyone to the meeting and introductions around the room were made by all. She thanked the Savvis representatives for their hospitality in providing the refreshments and hosting the meeting. Angie commented the group was interested in meeting sites, presentation topics, and speakers for future meetings. If anyone has suggestions for any of these items, please contact one of the Board members.

Handouts for the Fall DRJ 2003 and SEMA/MEPA conferences were available to all attendees.

Minutes of the February 20 meeting were not available for review.

Program Director Harlan Dolgin reviewed the current program status of upcoming meetings. He commented the April meeting would be to review the psychological effects and would be held at The Bick Group near West Port.

Angie reminded everyone that annual membership fees were due. If members or potential members had questions related to their status, please contact Membership Director Mike Smiley.

Librarian/Liaison Carl Brooks discussed the development of the website. He, and the entire MCPF Board, are looking for suggestions from the membership on improvements to the website at www.brookstech.net/mcpf/. If anyone has suggestions, please submit them to any of the Board members.

Under New Business, it was commented that several areas were offering CERT (Community Emergency Response Training) classes and they were available to the public. Chesterfield is offering the classes and information can be obtained at their website at http://www.chesterfield.mo.us/site/home.jsp?page=pd_programs. Everyone was encouraged to check with their local municipalities to see if these programs were being offered as well.

There being no additional new business, the meeting then moved to the featured presentation – Recovering your Business – The Information Processing Challenge. Program Director Dolgin introducted the featured presenter, Mr. David Rabinowitz of EMC Enterprise Storage Consultants.

David identified numerous challenges being faced in today’s business world regarding recovery of business data, while trying to eliminate the complexity, time, and risk. The standard practice is now “Do more with less.” His presentation focused on these items:

Ø Obstacles faced in today’s complex business world.

Ø Disasters can be unplanned or planned.

Ø Trends in business continuity indicate more data is critical, data consistency is key, two copies of data is insufficient, distance between sites does matter.

Ø Features of storage-based replication, local replication, and remote replication were highlighted.

Ø There are three Os that impact recovery solutions – GEO (geography), RPO (recovery point objective), and RTO (recovery time objective). When all these are well understood and integrated with the business objective, solutions can be successful.

David fielded questions from everyone. A copy of his presentation can be obtained by contacting Secretary Bathon or visiting our website at www.brookstech.net/mcpf/.

A tour of the Savvis Communications network facilities was provided and several attendees participated.

The next General Meeting will be held on Thursday, April 17, 2003, beginning at 3:00 p.m. The topic will be The Psychology of Disasters with Susan Flanigan, an independent consultant, as the featured speaker. Location will be at The Bick Group.

There being no additional business, the meeting adjourned at 4:20 pm.

Recorded by: Anna M. Bathon, CBCP

MCPF Secretary

Office: 314-466-3509

Fax: 314-466-3939

Email: anna.bathon@bankofamerica.com

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