Disaster Recovery Institute International’s Professional Practices for Business Continuity Planners should be required reading for every business continuity practitioner.

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Facility Emergency Management is a brand new DVD-based Training Program PLUS a resource CD-ROM intended to help small and medium size organizations create facility action plans and institute emergency procedures in order to protect workers, customers, visitors and the nearby community from the effects of an incident, whether it begins inside or outside the facility.

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Could your business go through a flood or a fire and still be in business? Although big businesses tend to take disaster recovery and business continuity more seriously, it’s probably the small to midsize business operating out of a single facility that could be wiped out more easily

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While the totality of Business Continuity Management is not limited to IT disaster recovery, this free ebook focuses on practices associated with IT disaster preparedness and disaster recovery for application data.

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There is a lot of pressure for today’s data center managers to hold down capital expenses while maintaining ever-expanding services. Many are trying to do more with less, with some pushing their systems beyond what they were originally designed to handle.

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Public Law 110-53 includes a provision (Title IX, PS-Prep), for the development of a voluntary disaster preparedness certification process for private sector entities. This voluntary certification and accreditation program is being developed and managed by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).

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Given the fact that lifeline of any business is information, Indian companies are increasingly realizing the need for a disaster recovery (DR) plan in a country where disasters are a regular phenomenon.

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This IDC white paper examines the challenges companies face when trying to ensure business continuity and disaster recovery for their business applications.

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With the scope of campus safety and security becoming more complex across the nation, Penn State undertook an analysis of 21 of its 24 campuses to assess each location’s emergency preparedness and response capabilities.

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CDW LLC, a provider of technology solutions to business, government, education and healthcare, announced the results of its Business Continuity Straw Poll, based on a survey of 200 Information Technology (IT) decision makers at medium and large U.S. businesses, each of which experienced significant network disruptions since July 2009. The survey investigated how their businesses reacted to the disruptions and the measures they are taking to improve their business continuity and disaster recovery (BC/DR) capabilities for the future. Continue reading CDW Poll: Businesses Express Confidence in IT Network Resilience, But Their Experiences Reveal Otherwise

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An effective root cause analysis process can improve production reliability significantly. But, few organizations have a functioning root cause analysis process in place.

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