Entries Categorized as 'BCM and IT DRM Research Coverage'
by Roberta J. Witty | April 16, 2010 | 6 Comments
The volcano eruption in Iceland that is currently spewing volcanic ash into the atmosphere is now shutting down air travel across Europe. Business travel is greatly disrupted in a number of areas: meetings, conferences, sales calls and so forth are being put on hold or cancelled altogether. What is your organization doing to assess the impact? Are [...]
Category: BCM and IT DRM Research Coverage Tags: Availability Risk, Business Continuity Management, Business Continuity Planning, Business Impact Analysis, Business Resiliency, Crisis Management, Disaster Recovery, Incident Management, IT Disaster Recovery, Mass Notification, Recovery Planning, Workforce Continuity
by Roberta J. Witty | February 22, 2010 | 1 Comment
John Morency here again. For many organizations, simply completing the recovery of a set of mission-critical applications and data over the course of a test exercise is sufficient for declaring success. The elapsed time consumed for recovery completion, if measured at all, is often a secondary consideration. However, this definition of success is often at [...]
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by Roberta J. Witty | February 12, 2010 | Comments Off
Many people are asking the question: Why did we make such a big deal around the H1N1 pandemic – nothing much has happened? And now, the WHO is going to convene a team to determine if they can downgrade its importance. I think we all agree that it is a good thing if the H1N1 [...]
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by Roberta J. Witty | February 8, 2010 | 4 Comments
The delivery of cloud services for IT operations backup, recovery and restart is a potentially significant market opportunity for a whole new generation of providers, in addition to the more established players such as HP, IBM and SunGard Availability Services. This is evidenced in the significant increase in the related client inquiry volume that we [...]
Category: BCM and IT DRM Research Coverage Tags: Availability Risk, BCM, BCP, Business Continuity Management, Disaster Recovery, IT Disaster Recovery, Recovery Planning
by Roberta J. Witty | January 20, 2010 | 3 Comments
Social media can be a great boon during a crisis for personal purposes. Just today I heard of a Haitian teenager who sent a text message to her aunt (I believe in the US) saying that she was alive but without a home. This text message could save her life as support organizations were notified [...]
Category: BCM and IT DRM Research Coverage Tags: Availability Risk, BCM, Business Continuity Management, Business Continuity Planning, Business Resiliency, Continuity of Operations, Crisis Management, Disaster Recovery, Emergency Notification, Emergency Preparedness, Incident Management, Operational Risk Management, Recovery Planning, Resiliency, Risk Assessment
by Roberta J. Witty | January 13, 2010 | 1 Comment
As much as you might not want to believe it, or know what to do about it, the price of oil is intricately involved in how our global economy works. Everything we do – outside of isolated civilizations – is dependent on oil, from getting to work every day, to shipping raw materials and finished [...]
Category: BCM and IT DRM Research Coverage Tags: Availability Risk, BCM, Business Continuity Management, Business Continuity Planning, Business Impact Analysis, Business Resiliency, Contingency Planning, Continuity of Operations, COOP, Disaster Recovery, Operational Risk Management, Recovery Planning, Resiliency, Risk Assessment, Workforce Continuity
by Roberta J. Witty | January 12, 2010 | Comments Off
My local ACP meeting had a great program today – Don Byrne from North River Solutions provided an update on the PS-Prep program, the differences between the three proposed standards – NFPA 1600-2007, ASIS SPC.1-2009 and BS 25999 and all the machinations of getting a program through the ANAB accreditation process. I ALSO had the [...]
Category: BCM and IT DRM Research Coverage Tags: Availability Risk, BCM, Business Continuity Management, Business Continuity Planning, Business Resiliency, Contingency Planning, Continuity of Operations, COOP, Emergency Preparedness, Pandemic Planning, Recovery Planning, Resiliency
by Roberta J. Witty | January 6, 2010 | 1 Comment
Happy 2010! Personally, I’d like a do-over for the last six months of 2009 – ironic, but I might have had H1N1, but most folks would prefer a do-over starting mid-2008. Life goes on and WOW! – has 2010 started with some big acquisition news. Not only has Gartner made a few acquisitions (AMR Research [...]
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by Roberta J. Witty | October 30, 2009 | Comments Off
I am doing some research regarding when an organization should invoke their pandemic preparedness plan(s) from a business operations perspective. I’m not talking about the personal hygiene/medical aspects, but the business operations impact view. Tell me how your firm is handling the issues expressed in the questions below. 1. How do you determine when to [...]
Category: BCM and IT DRM Research Coverage 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 Notification, Emergency Preparedness, Incident Management, IT Disaster Recovery, Mass Notification, Operational Risk Management, Pandemic Planning, Recovery Planning, Recovery Plans, Resiliency, Risk Assessment, Workforce Continuity
by Roberta J. Witty | October 23, 2009 | 2 Comments
Getting management attention and investment commitment for BCM can be hard. Linking key performance indicators to key risk indicators for resilience is an effective approach for communicating to business management the value of business continuity and resilience management, so that business management takes ownership of these programs and commits to the needed investments year over [...]
Category: BCM and IT DRM Research Coverage 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 Notification, Emergency Preparedness, Incident Management, IT Disaster Recovery, Mass Notification, Operational Risk Management, Pandemic Planning, Recovery Planning, Recovery Plans, Resiliency, Risk Assessment, Workforce Continuity
