Entries Tagged as 'Business Resiliency'
by Roberta J. Witty | February 4, 2013 | Comments Off
Friday’s Bank of America outage reminded me of an increasingly frequent question we receive on third party liability due to an operating outage. The use of cloud service providers is making this question top-of-mind for many organizations. But it’s not just cloud providers that you need to worry about: it’s all of your third party [...]
Category: Advisory BCM Process Event Tags: Availability Risk, Backup and Recovery, BCM, BCP, Business Continuity Management, Business Continuity Planning, Business interruption insurance, Business Resiliency, Cloud Computing, Commercial general liability insurance, compliance, Contingency Planning, contingent business interruption insurance, Continuity of Operations, COOP, Data Protection, data protection insurance, Disaster Recovery, Gartner, Governance, Liability Insurance for Professionals, Operational Risk Management, Property and casualty insurance, Recovery Planning, Resiliency, Risk Assessment, Roberta Witty, Umbrella (Excess) Liability Insurance
by Roberta J. Witty | November 7, 2012 | 2 Comments
With BYOD and telework gaining in adoption in the U.S., the question arises as to how much the employer is willing to provide backup and recovery support for personal devices as well as home-based offices such as generators, backup devices for computers, iPads for easier field-level functioning, dual Internet connections, dual telcom connections et al? I [...]
Category: BCM Process Technology Tags: Business Continuity Management, Business Continuity Planning, Business Resiliency, BYOD, COOP, Disaster Recovery, Gartner, Hurricane Sandy, IT Disaster Recovery, Personal preparedness, Roberta Witty, Sandy, Superstorm, Telework, WAH, work at home
by Roberta J. Witty | November 7, 2012 | 2 Comments
Sandy’s impact on mobile wireless service was, if anything, a reminder that the best backup systems will never replace the need for redundant communications channels when it comes to standalone or lifeline services. The FCC indicated that at one point last week up to 25% of the cell sites in affected areas of the [...]
Category: Advisory BCM Process Event Technology Tags: 2G, AT&T, Bill Menezes, Business Continuity Management, Business Continuity Planning, Business Resiliency, cell phone, COOP, Disaster Recovery, Emergency Management, Emergency Notification, Emergency Preparedness, enterprise mobility, FCC, Gartner, Hurricane Sandy, IT Disaster Recovery, Personal preparedness, Remote mobility, Sandy, satellite phone, Sprint Nextel, T-Mobile, Telecommunications, Telework, TMobile, Verizon, Verizon Wireless, ]
by Roberta J. Witty | November 2, 2012 | Comments Off
I was wondering how insurance companies keep track of all their covered assets and then assess the damage due to catastrophic events such as Superstorm Sandy. Clearly such storms generate tremendous stress on insurance industry operations due to property loss and associated claims submissions. They are overloaded with work in determining coverage and payment associated [...]
Category: Uncategorized Tags: Availability Risk, BCM, BCP, Business Continuity Management, Business Continuity Planning, Business interruption insurance, Business Resiliency, Contingency Planning, Continuity of Operations, COOP, crisis communications, Crisis Management, Disaster Recovery, Emergency Management, Emergency Preparedness, Hurricane Sandy, Incident Management, Operational Risk Management, P&C insurance, property damage, property insurance, records management, Recovery Planning, Recovery Plans, Resiliency, Risk Assessment, Sandy
by Roberta J. Witty | November 1, 2012 | Comments Off
One of the things I take seriously as a part of my job is making it easy for Gartner clients to get access to our research in a timely manner. So here is the list of Gartner BCM Blog posts related to Cyclone/Hurricane Sandy. I’ll compile a list every day so that you can easily [...]
Category: Advisory BCM Process Event Technology Tags: Allen Weiner, Andrea Dimaio, Arnold Chase, Availability Risk, Backup and Recovery, BCM, BCP, Belinda Wilson, Bill Gassman, Business Continuity Management, Business Continuity Planning, Business Resiliency, Cloud Computing, Colin Mcenroe, Contingency Planning, Continuity of Operations, COOP, Craig Roth, crisis communications, Crisis Management, Data Protection, Disaster Recovery, Donna Scott, Emergency Management, Emergency Notification, Emergency Preparedness, EMNS, French Caldwell, Hurricane Sandy, Incident Management, IT Disaster Recovery, Jack Santos, Jay Heiser, Jim Duggan, John Morency, Mass Notification, Operational Risk Management, Personal preparedness, RaaS, Recovery as a Service, Recovery Planning, Recovery Plans, Resiliency, Roberta Witty, Sandy, social media, Supply Chain Risk Management, virtual machines, Virtualization, VM, Workforce Continuity
by Roberta J. Witty | November 1, 2012 | 1 Comment
Workarea Recovery Provider Assessment Questions John P. Morency, Research VP As a result of Superstorm Sandy, we are getting calls from our clients impacted by the storm asking about mobile recovery units, so we thought we would provide some guidelines for evaluating them so that you can choose the correct one for your needs. Mobile [...]
Category: Advisory BCM Process Event Technology Tags: Business Continuity Management, Business Continuity Planning, Business Resiliency, data center recovery, Disaster Recovery, Hurricane Sandy, IT Disaster Recovery, IT DR, IT DRM, John Morency, mobile recovery, Sandy, Workarea recovery, workspace recovery
by Roberta J. Witty | October 31, 2012 | 3 Comments
Lack of Social Media May Foil Free Taco Marketing Plan by Allen Weiner | October 29, 2012 | Submit a Comment Smart digital marketers take into account many contingencies, and often even plan for the unexpected, but a World Series promotion shows the importance of including a social component in a major campaign just in case. Thanks to the heroics [...]
Category: Advisory BCM Process Event Technology Tags: Business Continuity Management, Business Continuity Planning, Business Resiliency, crisis communications, Crisis Management, Disaster Recovery, Emergency Management, Emergency Notification, Emergency Preparedness, Hurricane Sandy, IT Disaster Recovery, Sandy, social media
by Roberta J. Witty | October 31, 2012 | 2 Comments
What Can be Learned about Cloud –based Recovery in the Aftermath of Hurricane Sandy ??? John P. Morency, Research VP Given that the widespread availability of public cloud-based recovery services is only a few years old at this point, the opportunities to demonstrate their utility following the occurrence of major disaster events had been somewhat [...]
Category: Advisory BCM Process Event Technology Tags: Business Continuity Management, Business Continuity Planning, Business Resiliency, Cloud Computing, Cloud-based Recovery, Disaster Recovery, Hurricane Sandy, IT Disaster Recovery, John Morency, RaaS, Recovery as a Service, Recovery in the cloud, Sandy, virtual machines, Virtualization, VM
by Roberta J. Witty | October 31, 2012 | Comments Off
In the wake of Sandy, the Northeast will experience some of the same issues experienced when disasters have struck other major population centers. Disruptions of the scale of Sandy, Katrina, Andrew, the Christchurch earthquake or of the Asian Tsunami’s have lasted months and years. Lessons drawn from more than a few days of disruption include [...]
Category: Advisory BCM Process Event Technology Tags: Application Development, Business Continuity Management, Business Continuity Planning, Business Resiliency, COOP, Disaster Recovery, Emergency Management, Emergency Notification, Emergency Preparedness, Hurricane Sandy, IT Disaster Recovery, Jim Duggan, Sandy, Telecommunications
by Roberta J. Witty | October 31, 2012 | Comments Off
Expect to Hear About How Social Tech Enabled Self Relief in Sandy by French Caldwell | October 31, 2012 | Submit a Comment I expect to hear a lot of stories about social technology keeping people connected in the aftermath of Sandy — just as after Katrina. However, I am also expecting these stories to take a twist — we [...]
Category: Advisory BCM Process Event Technology Tags: Business Continuity Management, Business Continuity Planning, Business Resiliency, COOP, Disaster Recovery, Emergency Management, Emergency Notification, Emergency Preparedness, Hurrican, IT Disaster Recovery, Sandy, social media
