By Web Editor
May 18, 2010

Meet The Sponsors

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Gold Sponsor

Send Word Now is the leading provider of on-demand alerting and incident management services for both routine and emergency communication. The easy-to-use, web-based emergency notification service is used by government agencies, municipalities, universities, non-profit organizations and businesses, including many Fortune 500 companies, to ensure fast, effective, two-way communication in real-time.

sendwordnow.com

Silver Sponsors

myCOOP is COOP System's breakthrough continuity planning software.  The patented design was built from the ground up by world-class eCommerce developers. Visit our website to learn more about myCOOP, the future of continuity planning.

coop-systems.com

eBRP Solutions Inc. provides web-based tools and utilities, as well as consulting services for business continuity management. eBRP develops tools and utilities focused on core requirements.

ebrp.net

Since 1971, Forsythe has served as a national provider of technology infrastructure solutions to organizations nationwide. Forsythe brings cross-platform expertise to its technology consulting, technology leasing, and value added reseller services.

forsythe.com

IBM Business Continuity and Resiliency Services can cost effectively help you rapidly adapt and respond to internal or external dynamic changes - opportunities, demands, disruptions or threats - and continue operations with limited impact to the business.

ibm.com

Recovery Point is a leading national provider of integrated business continuity solutions. Services include hot site, cold site and work area recovery; tape storage and transportation; electronic data vaulting, cloud backup and recovery, secure hosting and full service consulting with innovative planning software. Delivered from multiple, secure facilities on a private, nationwide carrier-neutral network, Recovery Point's services can be acquired individually or packaged in any combination, helping clients reduce risk, eliminate vendor fragmentation and accelerate recovery processes. Our cost-effective approach offers greater contractual flexibility than piecing together a disaster recovery solution from multiple vendors.

recoverypoint.com

Oracle provides the world's most complete, open, and integrated business software and hardware systems, with more than 370,000 customers—including 100 of the Fortune 100—representing a variety of sizes and industries.

oracle.com

Bronze Sponsors

Atlantic.Net is a market-leading business data services provider known for exceptional service, simplifying complex technologies and building a brand that people trust.

atlantic.net

Booz Allen Hamilton has been at the forefront of strategy and technology consulting for more than 90 years. Government agencies, institutions, and infrastructure organizations rely on the firm's expertise and objectivity.

boozallen.com

Emprimus LLC, was formed to protect our critical civil infrastructure, against the electromagnetic threats. Emprimus has a graduated remediation process that offers a number of combinations and alternatives of protective technologies, operations and procedural techniques.

emprimus.com

MIR3 is the premiere provider of intelligent notification and response software for business operations, including crisis management, IT service management, corporate communications, customer relations, supply chain management, event management, or any area that needs reliable two-way notification.

mir3.com

About Strategic BCP, Inc. - Strategic BCP, Inc. (www.strategicbcp.com) is a business continuity planning company empowering organizations to build cost-effective, action-based plans. The company's Cloud BCP Software, ResilienceONE®, provides an all-in-one planning and incident management software tool and goes beyond traditional plan generation software with its intuitive business process-based methodology. ResilienceONE® (www.resilience1.com) is a web-native Cloud BCP Software featuring proprietary risk algorithms and metrics that automate cumbersome tasks and provide comprehensive insight into an organization's risk profile. Strategic BCP is compliant with the U.S. - E.U. Safe Harbor Framework and the U.S. - Swiss Safe Harbor Framework.

http://www.strategicbcp.com/

SunGard Availability Services provides disaster recovery services, managed IT services, information availability consulting services and business continuity management software to 10,000 customers in North America and Europe. With five million square feet of datacenter and operations space, SunGard assists IT organizations across virtually all industry and government sectors to prepare for and recover from emergencies by helping them minimize their computer downtime and optimize their uptime.

sungardas.com

Co-Sponsors

Consonus Technologies is a leading national provider of IT infrastructure and consulting, as well as IT Services. Consonus offers a comprehensive suite of technology services and support while providing customers with solutions that address disaster recovery, data protection, and virtualization.

consonus.com

EMC Business Continuity & Disaster Recovery: Balance business agility with continuity investments

Visit the EMC booth for a EMC Business Continuity & Disaster Recovery Services and Solutions Advisory Session. During this one-on-one consultation, learn how EMC can help you to achieve and balance business agility with continuity investments. EMC's Enterprise Business Continuity solutions provide a centralized, automated approach to business continuity and disaster recovery planning, allowing you to respond swiftly in crisis situations to protect your ongoing operations and improve the availability of key business systems. Today, nothing is more critical than ensuring continuity of an organization's business processes, technology infrastructure, and employee productivity. Business interruptions can jeopardize long-term growth and brand image, and negatively impact revenue. Lack of emergency preparedness puts employees, customers, and the businesses at risk.

emc.com

Whether you're in the midst of a disaster or running test shipments, count on FedEx Custom Critical. We're North America's largest time-specific, critical-shipment carrier - providing 24/7 pickup and delivery throughout the U.S. and Canada.

fedexcustomcritical.com

The Fusion Framework Risk Management & Contingency Planning System now makes it possible to capture, manage and continuously evolve risk profiles across the enterprise while building, maintaining and evolving comprehensive contingency plans aligned to those risks. Simply better, the Fusion Framework makes enterprise-class risk management and contingency planning dramatically easier, less costly, less resource intensive, yet more effective than ever before. Key features include risk management, contingency planning, automated workflows and approvals, powerful reporting and dashboards, enterprise integration, collaboration and communications. The Fusion Framework… Simply, Better!

fusionriskmgmt.com

Shermco Industries is a provider of safe, electrical restoration, reliable testing, repair, professional training, maintenance and analysis of rotating apparatus and electrical power distribution systems and related equipment for the light, medium, and heavy industrial base nationwide.

shermco.com

SIOS is a trusted authority in the application availability market. For companies faced with rigorous SLA and compliance requirements, SIOS ensures non-intrusive, total availability of business critical application assets to protect business revenues from costly application downtime. SIOS delivers solutions that safeguard entire systems, from databases to end-user applications. Unlike high availability solutions that introduce complexity and risk into environments by frequently changing their underlying architectures, SIOS has perfected the science of application availability by providing a proven, future-proof architecture that provides superior availability at a lower cost of ownership.

www.us.sios.com

At Verizon Wireless, reliability is in our DNA. It is built into everything we do from network operations to customer service to business continuity and disaster recovery. We work to build and operate the nation's most reliable wireless network – no matter what disaster or unanticipated event we may face.

verizonwireless.com

VOLO Recovery was designed to enable businesses to stabilize internal and external communications when faced with outages due to disaster or technical failure. A self contained, single-source business continuity disaster recovery system, VOLO provides a complete inbound and outbound communication infrastructure.

volorecovery.com

The Business Continuity Institute (BCI) was established in 1994 to enable individual members to obtain guidance and support from fellow business continuity practitioners. The BCI is the world's most eminent BCM institute and our name is instantly recognized as standing for good practice and professionalism. Professional membership of the BCI provides internationally recognized status and demonstrates the member's competence to carry out business continuity management (BCM) to a consistently high standard.

thebci.org

Mock Disaster Sponsor

Attainium delivers business continuity planning, workshops and sessions and tabletop exercises. Attainium assesses an organization's ability to cope with and recover from a wide variety of disruptive events. This is established by performing our assessments, impact analysis, the development of a BC plan, ongoing plan testing and plan maintenance.

attainium.net

Official Research Partner

Forrester Research is a technology and market research company that provides pragmatic advice to global leaders. With hundreds of analysts and coverage areas, we are the only company that creates forward-thinking research specifically for your role.

forrester.com

Non-Profit Sponsors

DRII's goals are to create a base of common BCP knowledge through education, assistance, and the development of a resource base; to certify qualified individuals; and to promote the credibility and professionalism of certified professionals.

drii.org

Private and Public Businesses, Inc. is committed to providing the industry with training and BC solutions in partnership with both private and public agencies that contribute to the effective collaboration required for regional disasters.

ppbi.org