Roberta Witty

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Archives for February, 2009


When Green = Disaster?

by Roberta J. Witty  |  February 25, 2009  |  Comments Off

I’ve been hearing a few reports regarding disaster declarations in facilities that are developed using green building practices.  This is an interesting one.  The premise is that automatic flush/energy-saving toilets are often not on generator backup.  Therefore, local health officials can close the building because of the health risk posed by non-flushing toilets.  The enterprise [...]

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Welcome to Gartner’s BCM Research Team!

by Roberta J. Witty  |  February 18, 2009  |  Comments Off

Gartner has been researching IT disaster recovery (IT DRM) since the mid-90s.  Our coverage of “all things recovery” took on added focus after September 11.  But our coverage for business continuity management (BCM) has only gone “full-time” since January/2008 when I transitioned from identity and access management to covering the BCM topic with the inception of the [...]

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