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February 2nd, 2012
Expensive weather and climate disasters in the United States
 Disaster Recovery
and Business Continuity plans need to consider natural weather and events. The
effects that natural events have on the environment directly and indirectly may
be harmful to people. Forest fires and volcanoes harm air quality. Hurricanes
and floods can contaminate water supplies and damage wastewater facilities. Any
of these can spread contaminated materials into the environment.
The United States set a record with 12 separate billion-dollar
weather/climate disasters in 2011, with an aggregate damage total of
approximately $52 billion, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration. That is just continuing the trend of the past 30 years.
These incidents have prompted many organizations to reconsider the human
element during a crisis or major news event and evaluate how they communicate
with employees, suppliers, investors and customers. Emergency and mass
notification systems are designed to help organizations communicate to
stakeholders during an incident or disruption. However, in response to the high
occurrence of prominent disasters in recent years, the marketplace has been
flooded with products to address emergency and mass notification needs. The need
to diligently evaluate vendors is critical to ensure that services will meet an
organization's specific requirements.
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January 20th, 2012
Disaster Life Cycle
A business disruption has a life cycle; it starts small and could potentially
become a disaster of epic proportion, depending on its duration. The longer the
duration, the greater the disruption to your business. Your organizationÂ’s
response should shift as an incident evolves from threat to emergency to crisis
to disaster. ItÂ’s one thing to say access to contract data isnÂ’t essential for a
day or two, but what about a week or two? This is why itÂ’s important to protect
more than just data. Now that you know what processes are critical to the
operation of your business, you can consider threats according to their impact
on those critical processes.
To help you mitigate impact to your core processes, your plan should address
three key phases:
- Business Continuity Response - these are the steps you take
immediately to sustain your core processes, your primary business
priorities
- Disaster Recovery Response - these are the steps you take to extend
your core processes indefinitely and address your secondary priorities
- Restoration Planning Response - these are the steps you take to
restore your business to its pre
-incident level
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January 8th, 2012
DRP for virtual data centers
Protecting application data from disasters is critical to keeping businesses
up and running. Yet traditional disaster recovery solutions were never intended
to address the needs of today's virtualized data center.
As a result, the cost and complexity of using traditional disaster recovery
products to address data replication needs in highly virtualized environments
forces many organizations to forego disaster recovery
altogether.
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December 14th, 2011
Business continuity management will minimise business interruptions
In addition to this, it is integral for managers to devise business
continuity plans to deal with the threats identified by setting out what needs
to be done should a certain event occur.
 And although not possible to avoid all risks, business continuity
management (BCM) can minimise the disruption to a business to a great extend,
protecting its share price, stakeholder relations, and reputation, among
others.
With that said, BCM is a critical strategic function that cannot be neglected
by any organisation whatsoever.
Still, managers often neglect charting a strategic course for their company's
future survival, which in itself poses a huge risk, seeing that there are many
internal and external events that could impact on a company's overall
performance, such as:
- the death of the CEO, owner or key staff member
- fire, flood or earthquake damage - this could hamper operations while
organisations repair damages or settle insurance claims
- an interruption in the supply chain
- the loss of a major client
- production line failure or breakdown
- failure to stay abreast of technological innovation
- product failure or contaminationinterruption in telecommunications or
power supply
 
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November 5th, 2011
Tape still used in my DR plans
 Data protection
requirements are further necessary to comply with regulated and long periods of
data retention. For example, laws about data storage and privacy apply to the
vertical markets of the medical industry. HIPAA requires medical companies to
store patientÂ’s medical records for five to seven years, and to store their
childhood records for the life of the patient. This data also has to be highly
secure and easily accessible to address patient care and also for legal reasons,
such as a mishap in the office. Laws exist like this in many other industries as
well, and a company is advised to research legal strictures on data protection.
If there is a law requiring compliance, companies must often store more data for
a longer period of time, necessitating secure, cost‐effective storage.
These requirements build a basis for using tape for data protection in the
mid‐market, in part because of the high likelihood that organizations already
use some form of tape in their IT set‐ups. Tape continues to be the preferred
home for nearly 70 percent of the world's data. Using tape for DR automatically
builds on existing infrastructure and practices, and provides cost‐effective
long‐term storage that addresses DR and legal compliance.
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