Entries Tagged as 'IT Disaster Recovery'
by Roberta J. Witty | September 28, 2011 | 5 Comments
On Tuesday September 20, 2011, I attended my local CT ACP chapter’s annual tabletop exercise. Hosted at Northeast Utilities, the ACP management team in conjunction with NU’s BCM team, conducted a great two hour exercise that was filled with lots of changing conditions, misinformation, and even an Elvis impersonator! Also in attendance were an EMNS [...]
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by Roberta J. Witty | September 13, 2011 | 1 Comment
Anniversaries of major events – personal and public – trigger much reflection on what has changed since the event, and 9/11 is no different. I went back to my experience in the months following 9/11 to find nuggets of information about which to write regarding how 9/11 changed the ability of organizations to respond and [...]
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by Roberta J. Witty | August 31, 2011 | 2 Comments
Ensuring your staff is prepared and safe before, during and after a disaster goes a long way in ensuring workforce resilience – in other words, that your workforce will be ready and able to come to the aid of the organization during a crisis event. To that end, a new web resource – Get Tech [...]
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by Roberta J. Witty | August 30, 2011 | 2 Comments
As most of us are now on the other side of Hurricane Irene, we want to ask everyone what recovery controls worked, which didn’t and which were new for your organization or your town. For example, the local fire departments around my area (Northwest CT) are offering charging stations for citizens to use for devices [...]
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by Roberta J. Witty | May 18, 2011 | Comments Off
The rolling blackouts designed to conserve electricity following the earthquake and tsunami in northern Japan continue to present serious challenges for enterprises. Gartner’s best practices can help IT organizations protect their infrastructures and support their workforces. Key Findings The earthquake and tsunami that struck the Tohoku district in March, and the power plant failures and [...]
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by Roberta J. Witty | May 15, 2011 | Comments Off
For many organizations, engaging external assistance can often be the step needed to develop, mature and modernize a business continuity management program. Gartner’s recent survey of BCM consulting providers and services delivers the information clients need to make informed engagement decisions. The findings in this research are based on a joint Gartner and Business Continuity [...]
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by Roberta J. Witty | March 3, 2011 | 1 Comment
I’ve been in Australia for the last few days running workshops on how Queensland responded to the January/2011 floods. There were actually three flooding events: flash flooding in the western area (Toowoomba and Grantham), and then a few days later, flooding in the northern area and central district of Brisbane occurred. Many people lost their [...]
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by Roberta J. Witty | February 9, 2011 | 3 Comments
I live in CT. I have snow on my roof. Lots of it. For the last few weeks, I’ve used a snow rake to remove it from my rather flat sunroom roof. With almost daily news reports hailing roof collapses due to the weight of snow in excess of two feet in some places, you’d [...]
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by Roberta J. Witty | December 9, 2010 | 2 Comments
Earlier this week, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security announced on their web site “The Blog @ Homeland Security” that they have partnered with Wal-Mart to further promote DHS’ campaign of “If You See Something, Say Something”. Tagged “Hometown Security”, the video of Janet Napolitano, Security of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security advises Wal-Mart [...]
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by Roberta J. Witty | November 30, 2010 | 1 Comment
In Q3/2010, Gartner published 18 maturity self-assessment tools under the trade name of ITScore. One of the tools is for BCM: ITScore for Business Continuity Management. This ITScore-based Maturity Assessment represents an evaluation of an enterprise BCM program based on key indicators of maturity, which encompass management processes, personnel and organization, technologies and tools, and [...]
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