Issue Archive: July/August 2006
Cover Story
Buffy Rojas
ORECK may be a household word, but it's still a fairly small, family-owned, family-run company. When ORECK was hit hard by Hurricane Katrina, it's family focus, with emphasis on trust and responsibility, brought the company from the brink of disaster back to continued business success.
Features
Allison Baker
As vulnerabilities and risks rose, the public became more aware of the business continuity industry and now may even have some faint idea of what a business continuity professional does. Threats such as Y2K, 9/11, Hurricane Katrina, and fear of pandemics put business continuity on the media's - and therefore the public's - map. Business continuity professional even recently made it into CNNMoney.com's list of "7 trendy new jobs". Imagine that.
Bill Beattie
Business continuity planning began with technology people recognizing the need to plan to recover technology. While we've progressed beyond that in our profession, we still haven't reached the point where we plan for full business recovery.
Kate Debevois
Business Continuity, resiliency, high-availability, zero acceptable downtime those are the industry buzzwords and watchwords of today. But what about disaster recovery? While the phrase may scream "old timer", disasters do still happen and you still need to be ready to revover if your plans fail or are overwhelmed.
Kathy Lee Patterson, Ken Frantz, and John Kelly
Learn how one organization was able to sell a level of business continuity and disaster recovery planning not often accomplished in an academic healthcare environment.
