Entries Tagged as 'Recovery Plans'
by Roberta J. Witty | February 20, 2013 | 3 Comments
On 12 February 2013, emergency/mass notification services (EMNS) vendor xMatters purchased the intellectual property of Bamboo, an enterprise-level incident management mobile app from Deloitte Australia, for an undisclosed amount. Members of Deloitte’s risk practice are assisting in the full transition as are application developers from the Bamboo team employed in the build-out. This acquisition of [...]
Category: Event Technology Tags: Bamboo, BCM, BCM planning, BCMP, Business Continuity Management, Business Continuity Planning, Business Impact Analysis, Emergency Notification, EMNS, Gartner, Mass Notification, Recovery Planning, Recovery Plans, Roberta Witty, xMatters
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 | September 4, 2012 | 3 Comments
It’s September. Kids are back to school and we adults have an internal clock driving us to start something new. BCM professionals can take advantage of this quest by leveraging the annual U.S. National Preparedness Month – Presidential Proclamation — National Preparedness Month, 2012. If you haven’t done so already, schedule an event at work [...]
Category: Advisory BCM Process Event ITScore for BCM Standards/Frameworks Technology Tags: Availability Risk, Backup and Recovery, BCM, BCP, BIA, Business Continuity Management, Business Continuity Planning, Business Impact Analysis, Business Resiliency, Cloud service providers, Cloud storage providers, compliance, Contingency Planning, Continuity of Operations, COOP, Crisis Management, Data Protection, Disaster Recovery, Emergency Notification, Emergency Preparedness, Governance, Homeland Security, Incident Management, IT Disaster Recovery, Mass Notification, Operational Risk Management, Pandemic Planning, records management, Recovery Planning, Recovery Plans, Resiliency, Risk Assessment, Roberta Witty, social media, Succession Planning, Supply Chain Risk Management, Workforce Continuity
by Roberta J. Witty | April 23, 2012 | Comments Off
The April/2012 Continuity Insights Conference in Scottsdale, Arizona was a great mix of foundational and advanced topics in business continuity management (BCM). PS-Prep even had its own track! I couldn’t be at all sessions, so this post is about the ones I attended – it might give you some insight as to what our clients [...]
Category: Event Tags: Availability Risk, Backup and Recovery, banking, BCM, BCP, BIA, Business Continuity Management, Business Continuity Planning, Business Impact Analysis, Business Resiliency, compliance, Contingency Planning, Continuity of Operations, COOP, Crisis Management, Disaster Recovery, Emergency Notification, Emergency Preparedness, Homeland Security, IT Disaster Recovery, Mass Notification, Operational Risk Management, Pandemic Planning, records management, Recovery Planning, Recovery Plans, Resiliency, Risk Assessment, Roberta Witty, Supply Chain Risk Management, Workforce Continuity
by Roberta J. Witty | March 27, 2012 | 1 Comment
It took some time, but we published four new notes regarding the emergency/mass notification market. Magic Quadrant for U.S. Emergency/Mass Notification Services Published: 8 March 2012 ID:G00217610 Analyst(s): Roberta J. Witty | John Girard | Jeff Vining | Catherine H. Goldstein The emergency/mass notification services market continues to grow, and supports more than 50 vendors [...]
Category: Advisory Tags: Availability Risk, Backup and Recovery, banking, BCM, BCP, BIA, Business Continuity Management, Business Continuity Planning, Business Impact Analysis, Business Resiliency, Contingency Planning, Continuity of Operations, Crisis Management, Disaster Recovery, Emergency Notification, Emergency Preparedness, Incident Management, IT Disaster Recovery, Mass Notification, Operational Risk Management, Pandemic Planning, Recovery Planning, Recovery Plans, Resiliency, Risk Assessment, Roberta Witty, social media, Supply Chain Risk Management, Terrorism, Workforce Continuity
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 [...]
Category: Uncategorized Tags: Availability Risk, Backup and Recovery, BCM, BCP, BIA, Business Continuity Management, Business Continuity Planning, Business Impact Analysis, Business Resiliency, Contingency Planning, Continuity of Operations, COOP, Crisis Management, Data Protection, Disaster Recovery, Emergency Preparedness, Governance, IT Disaster Recovery, Operational Risk Management, records management, Recovery Planning, Recovery Plans, Resiliency, Supply Chain Risk Management, Workforce Continuity
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 [...]
Category: Uncategorized Tags: Availability Risk, Backup and Recovery, BCM, BIA, Business Continuity Management, Business Continuity Planning, Business Impact Analysis, Business Resiliency, Contingency Planning, Continuity of Operations, COOP, Crisis Management, Disaster Recovery, Emergency Notification, Emergency Preparedness, Incident Management, IT Disaster Recovery, Mass Notification, Operational Risk Management, Pandemic Planning, Recovery Planning, Recovery Plans, Resiliency, Risk Assessment, Supply Chain Risk Management, Workforce Continuity
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 [...]
Category: Uncategorized Tags: Availability Risk, BCM, BCP, BIA, Business Continuity Management, Business Continuity Planning, Business Impact Analysis, Business Resiliency, Contingency Planning, Continuity of Operations, COOP, Data Protection, Disaster Recovery, Emergency Notification, Emergency Preparedness, Governance, H1N1, Incident Management, IT Disaster Recovery, Mass Notification, Operational Risk Management, Pandemic Planning, Recovery Planning, Recovery Plans, Resiliency, Risk Assessment, Roberta Witty, Workforce Continuity
by Roberta J. Witty | November 30, 2010 | 6 Comments
At the end of 2010, most workers can’t live without collaboration tools – at least instant messaging to communicate immediately to a group of co-workers. But during a power outage that takes out your data center, and therefore access to these tools through a controlled IT infrastructure, collaboration is of utmost need. This is where [...]
Category: Uncategorized Tags: Availability Risk, Backup and Recovery, BCM, BCP, Business Continuity Management, Business Continuity Planning, Business Resiliency, Contingency Planning, Continuity of Operations, COOP, Crisis Management, Disaster Recovery, Emergency Notification, Emergency Preparedness, Incident Management, IT Disaster Recovery, Mass Notification, Operational Risk Management, Recovery Planning, Recovery Plans, Resiliency, Roberta Witty
