Global Disaster Alert Business Survival ™ NewsNEW BOOK: Hiles on Business Continuity: Global Best Practices (Third Edition) by Thought Leader Andrew Hiles.
Confidently create your BCP from scratch – or improve the one you have – aided by Hiles’ wide-ranging perspective, including case studies, global standards, and hard-won insights into what works and why. More...
NEW BOOK! The Cost of Emotions in the Workplace: Bottom Line Value of Emotional Continuity Management
Dr. Vali Hawkins Mitchell, a leading authority in the growing field of Emotional Continuity Management, makes a compelling business case that human emotions have a calculable, direct impact on the fiscal bottom line, and gives you powerful, practical tools to manage those costs. More...
NEW BOOK! Lukaszewski on Crisis Communication: What Your CEO Needs to Know about Reputation Risks and Crisis Management, by Jim Lukaszewski
A Global Grand Master and Pioneer – Who Helped Shape the Modern Discipline of Crisis Communication – Has Distilled a Career’s Worth of Knowledge and Practical Advice… to tell your CEO and advisers what they must do to preserve, protect, defend, and recover their brands, reputations, even careers. More...
NEW! Easy-to-Use Template for Comprehensive Business Continuity Management to Enhance Your Organization's Resilience
Easy-to-use, comprehensive, expert, step-by-step instructions and templates – just what you’re looking for if you need a clear, actionable Business Continuity Plan More...
Facility Emergency Management DVD-based training
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. More...
Emergency Management Exercises: From Response to Recovery Special
Exercises are a mainstay in the field of emergency management and business continuity planning. Although many companies conduct exercises, and the organizers may be emergency response subject matter experts, they do not excel in the discipline of designing and conducting the actual exercise – which means they simply don’t get the best results out of their effort. More...
ASIS International and BSI released a joint American National Standard, Business Continuity Management Systems: Requirements with Guidance for Use (ANSI/ASIS/BSI BCM.1-2010).
Tags: ASIS, bsi, Business continuity standards, Standards
Small and midsize businesses (SMBs) in the United States ranked 10th out of 13 countries in their ability to bounce back from an IT disaster, trailed only by peers in Australia, France, and Italy, according to a new study by Acronis.
Continue reading U.S. SMBs Lag In Disaster Recovery Readiness
Tags: Acronis, preparedness, survey
Although 2011’s National Level Exercise (NLE) isn’t until May, participants at all levels of government have already begun preparing.
And getting ready for the drill isn’t a small task — it’s being hailed as one of the largest emergency exercises in the nation’s history and the first to turn the spotlight on a natural disaster.
Continue reading States Prepare Plans, Build Relationships for Unique National Exercise NLE 2011
Tags: exercise, FEMA, National Level Exercise, NLE 2011, Testing
When flood waters threatened to breach the banks of the Brisbane River recently, the State Library of Queensland, Australia looked to be one of its first casualties.
Continue reading Librarians rewrite the book on disaster recovery
Tags: Australia, flood, Queensland, rary
The recent flooding in Queensland, Australia has provided a perfect demonstration of the need for financial services firms to have appropriate procedures in place to ensure business continuity.
Continue reading Floods test contingency plans
Tags: flooding, floods, natural disasters
Here are the 10 finalists in the backup and disaster recovery (DR) software and services category in Storage magazine’s and SearchStorage.com’s 2010 Products of the Year competition.
Tags: archivers, archiving, backup, Disaster Recovery, electronic vaulting, replication, snapshot, software
It used to be that many managed service providers—especially those targeting SMBs—were reluctant to present clients with IT service-level agreements (SLAs).
Continue reading The 411 on IT Service-Level Agreements (SLAs)
Tags: managed service providers, MSPs, service level agreements, SLAs
Business Continuity Awareness Week (BCAW) will run from March 21st to 25th in 2011 and preparations are already underway.
Continue reading Business Continuity Awareness Week 2011
Tags: BCAW, bci, business continuity awareness week, Business Continuity Institute
“Pruning the family tree,” or reducing the number of family members involved in the business, may sometimes be the only final recourse to ensure business continuity and family harmony for family businesses that have lasted for more than one generation.
Continue reading Ensuring business continuity for family businesses
Tags: Family Business, Family Business Continuity, Philippines, succession planning
Symantec Corp. announced the findings of its 2011 SMB Disaster Preparedness Survey, which measured the attitudes and practices of small- and mid-sized businesses (SMBs) and their customers toward disaster preparedness. The survey findings show that though SMBs are at risk, they are still not making disaster preparedness a priority until they experience a disaster or data loss.
Continue reading Survey: SMBs Not Prepared For Disasters, Don’t Act Until It’s Too Late
Tags: Backup Exec, Backup Exec System Recovery, disaster preparedness, Disaster Recovery, high availability, NetBackup, server management, small- and mid-sized business, smb, storage, storage management, survey, Symantec, Veritas
There are thousands of service-level products and their major features within a cloud application stack. How can you be sure it will recover from a business interruption or disaster?
Continue reading Cloud disaster recovery: Can you trust your provider?
Tags: cloud computing, cloud disaster recovery, LDAP, XML
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