Telecommunications is your lifeline in day to day business operations. Today’s competitive corporate world demands that we be able to interact in a professional and immediate fashion. No matter how… Continue reading Communication Recovery: Is Your Business on the Line?

As the scope of corporate technology broadens with each passing minute, “technological fitness” could well become the corporate buzzword for the twenty-first century. With the ongoing development of state-of-the-art communications… Continue reading Making the Most of the Worst: New Breed of “Intelligent” Buildings Ease Disaster Managem

Hewitt Associates is an international firm of consultants and actuaries specializing in the design, financing, communication, and administration of employee benefits and compensation programs. One professional group administer defined contribution… Continue reading Remote Database Logging For Disaster Recovery

Introduces a Disaster Plan for Data and Voice, Providing End to End Disaster Recovery Service The Growing dependence of companies on their data processing applications increases their vulnerability to unforseen… Continue reading AT&T Communications

Part I The contingency planning information in this article is limited in scope to the tele-processing (TP) network and does not address the requirement for full restoration of the data… Continue reading Developing a Contingency Plan for Your Tele-Processing Networks

The most prominent feature of the Information Age has been the marriage of computers and telecommunications. This is a positive union that supports revolutionary innovations in information technology, office automation,… Continue reading A Failure to Communicate

When most of us think DISASTER, we think flood, hurricane, fire, earthquake, or some other cataclysmic event. We visualize anxious people scurrying around trying to save lives and protect property.… Continue reading Don’t Be a Victim of a Communications Disaster

There is a growing concern about security in communications networks, as commerce and industry have come to realize the increasing strategic importance of their telecommunications resources. Disaster prevention and recovery… Continue reading Protection of Critical Communications Networks

Public packet switching networks such as U.S. Sprint’s Sprintnet (formerly Telenet) and British Telecom’s Tymnet allow computer systems of large and small organizations to be accessed from more than 900… Continue reading Hostile Takeovers: Exposing Packet Switching Network Vulnerabilities

Telecommunications crises are unfortunately all too common in today’s sophisticated telecommunications environment. Nowhere has the business impact of such a crisis been more dramatically illustrated than the May, 1988 fire… Continue reading Put Recovery in Place Before the Disaster