Business Continuity/Disaster Recovery Bookstore Bestsellers

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...

NEW 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! 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...

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...

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...

CEO Guide to Disaster Preparedness: The Importance of Disaster Plans

Written by Phil on December 13, 2012 in Business Continuity, disaster preparedness, Disaster Recovery.

After several close calls with hurricanes, executives at Florida Hospital in Orlando decided to rethink their disaster plans. A direct hit by a storm could, of course, endanger patients. But it could also destroy the technology that the facility depends on for medical records, clinical test results, and accounting.

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Tags: Business Continuity, disaster preparedness, Disaster Recovery, Florida Hospital, hospital, Sungard

Hurricane Sandy: Disaster Recovery Improv Tales

Written by Phil on November 9, 2012 in Business Continuity, disaster preparedness, Disaster Recovery.

Disaster preparedness is a well-known best practice in running a data center, but Hurricane Sandy is showing that in disasters, the unexpected happens. When it does, some disaster recovery plans turn out to have holes in them, while others may still require improvisation.

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Tags: Disaster Recovery, Hurricane Sandy 2012, Peer 1 Hosting, Sungard

Sungard’s Stern Says Data Centers Need Disaster Plans

Written by Phil on November 2, 2012 in disaster preparedness, Disaster Recovery.

Andrew Stern, chief executive officer at SunGard Availability Services, talks about data center disaster preparation and recovery operations following Atlantic superstorm Sandy.

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Tags: data center, Sandy, Sungard

Preparing for the Worst

Written by Phil on January 4, 2012 in Business Continuity.

Right now, businesses around the world are struggling to recover from the devastation caused by both natural and manmade disasters. The idea that your company could one day find itself in the same position is hardly inconceivable.

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Tags: Business Continuity, Sungard

SunGard Availability Services Expands Philadelphia Data Center

Written by Phil on October 11, 2011 in Business Continuity, Disaster Recovery.

SunGard Availability Services announced the expansion of its Philadelphia data center at 1500 Spring Garden Street to accommodate growing demand for SunGard’s portfolio of cloud computing, colocation and managed IT services. The Spring Garden Data Center expansion incorporates sustainable environmental controls to advance green IT initiatives.

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Tags: Enterprise Cloud Services, industry news, Recover2Cloud, recovery site, Sungard, SunGard Availability Services, vendor

SunGard Availability Services Announces Expansion into India

Written by Phil on July 28, 2011 in Business Continuity.

SunGard Availability Services, provider of Information Availability and business continuity services, has announced its expansion into India with two new dedicated Workplace Recovery facilities.

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Tags: recovery site, Sungard, SunGard Availability Services, vendor, workarea recovery

SunGard Availability Services publishes 2010 UK invocation analysis

Written by Phil on July 12, 2011 in Business Continuity, survey.

SunGard Availability Services released its sixth annual analysis of major causes of business disruption in the UK. The office is now firmly the main source of business disruption, with almost three times as many problems caused by workplace incidents such as power and communication failures than by technology failures involving hardware or other IT issues.

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Tags: invocations, Sungard, survey, threats, UK Great Britain, United Kingdom

The Forrester Wave™: Disaster Recovery Services Providers, Q2 2010 Report

Written by Phil on June 30, 2010 in Business Continuity.

Forrester Research’s 64-criteria evaluation of disaster recovery services providers found that IBM, HP, SunGard, and ICM led the pack due to their best-in-class core disaster recovery services and vision.

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Tags: CAPS, Forrester, IBM, ICM, Sungard, survey, vendors, Verizon

Andrew Stern Appointed Chief Executive Officer of SunGard Availability Services

Written by Phil on June 17, 2010 in Jobs.

SunGard announced that Andrew Stern has been appointed chief executive officer of SunGard Availability Services.

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Tags: industry, Sungard

UK Business Disruptions Escalate in 2009 – Workplace Disruptions Overtake Technology for First Time as Cause of Business Interruption

Written by Phil on June 10, 2010 in Business Continuity, Disaster Recovery, survey.

SunGard Availability Services, a leading provider of Information Availability and business continuity services, released its annual analysis of major causes of business disruption in the United Kingdom in 2009.

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Tags: invocations, Sungard, survey, UK, United Kingdom

SunGard Availability Services CEO Berg Resigns

Written by Phil on February 17, 2010 in Jobs.

SunGard announced that Eric Berg has resigned as chief executive officer of SunGard Availability Services, a position he held since October 2007.

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Tags: Eric Berg, Sungard

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