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Avoiding Disaster in Mission-Critical Facilities:
May 9, 2006 8:00 pm | by Joe Soroka | Articles | CommentsInfrastructure failure and human error are the two leading, yet preventable causes of downtime in mission-critical facilities. However, organizations continue to spend a disproportionate amount of their information technology (IT) budgets on dis...
Crisis Management Communications Lessons Learned
May 9, 2006 8:00 pm | by Paul Sullivan | Articles | CommentsThis year’s record-breaking hurricane season showed that crisis communication planning is critical. Events also reinforced that a vital records program that keeps both paper and electronic documents accessible is crucial. This session will show ...
Insurance Assurance: Understanding How Insurance Impacts BCP
May 9, 2006 8:00 pm | by John W. Marini | Articles | CommentsThe BCP professional’s task is to ensure uninterrupted operations, with the ultimate goal of protecting the organization from financial loss. The risk manager or insurance professional’s goal is also to ensure a full financial recovery. It’s app...
Organizational Crisis Management:
May 9, 2006 8:00 pm | by Gerald Lewis | Articles | CommentsFloods, hurricanes, power outages, layoffs, violence, litigation, earthquakes, fires, hacking, sick building syndrome, strikes, terrorism…work crises come in all shapes and sizes. Most continuity plans prioritize infrastructure, IT, and security...
The People Factor Before and After a Disaster (Case Study)
May 9, 2006 8:00 pm | by Tom Serio | Articles | CommentsHow can a company help prepare its employees for a disaster? How can you educate employees so they can weather the storm and be available to return to work? This presentation shows how Office Depot takes a grass-roots approach to educating and p...
Voice Communications:
May 9, 2006 8:00 pm | by Mike Bemis | Articles | CommentsTelecommunications breakdowns make business interruptions even worse. Employees and their families, customers, partners, supply chain members, even the press, rely on effective communications during the initial minutes and hours after an event. ...
Selecting the Right Disaster Recovery Site
May 9, 2006 8:00 pm | by Rich Schiesser | Articles | CommentsPlanning for a disaster and selecting the right recovery site requires an incredible amount of forethought, decision-making, and analysis. But how do you decide exactly which recovery site works best for your particular situation? This session w...
First Katrina, then Rita:
May 9, 2006 8:00 pm | by Ms. Michael Redmond | Articles | CommentsEntergy Corporation is the only Fortune 500 headquarted in New Orleans, and its headquarters was downtown and hard hit. Entergy is an electric/gas utility operating in a regulated environment in four states and has an unregulated nuclear busines...
Evolution of an Integrated Crisis Management Program at UPS (Case Study)
May 9, 2006 8:00 pm | by Jack McKlveen | Articles | CommentsEffective business continuity is critical for an organization to survive incidents that threaten its ability to make products, provide services or otherwise conduct business. During a major incident, business continuity plans will be executed as...
Bracing for More Hurricane Fury
May 9, 2006 8:00 pm | by Chris Hebert | Articles | CommentsThe 2004 and 2005 hurricane seasons brought a series of particularly devastating storms to the U.S. Gulf and East Coasts, and we predict the recent increase in storm activity will continue for the next 10 to 20 years. The devastation wrought by ...
What Happened When Print-to-Mail Met Hurricane Katrina? (Case Study)
May 9, 2006 8:00 pm | by Gerald Montella General Manager | Articles | CommentsNew Orleans-based disaster recovery and continuity teams were in their offices Saturday, August 27 getting ready for Hurricane Katrina to hit. They left to get their recoveries underway not knowing it would be weeks before they saw their familie...
Conducting a Meaningful Continuity Assessment
May 8, 2006 8:00 pm | by Lee Milligan | Articles | CommentsAssessing the quality of a company’s BCP program is difficult and complex, and involves multiple levels of measurement and consideration. Learn about the factors and issue relationships involved with a business continuity assessment, and how the...
Data Integrity Meets DR
May 8, 2006 8:00 pm | by Claus Mikkelsen | Articles | CommentsServer-based, network-based, array-based, application based: You’ve heard the arguments before from a host of vendors. Who, if anyone, is telling the whole truth? Are there advantages of one technology over another and why does it matter? How do...
DR Planning at Healthcare Organizations: Internal vs. External Solutions
May 8, 2006 8:00 pm | by Kevin Chenowith | Articles | CommentsThis session will provide a comparison of internal and external IT disaster recovery solutions and how they might fit into the overall business continuity strategy. The factors involved in deciding whether to develop internal solutions for recov...
Emergency Response Planning at Constellation Energy (Case Study)
May 8, 2006 8:00 pm | by Dan Sadler | Articles | CommentsAt Constellation Energy, a leading supplier of energy to large commercial and industrial customers nationwide, keeping the power on is priority one. As a result, Constellation has spent years developing and refining an emergency response program...
