by DRJ Editorial Team | Nov 20, 2007 | Spring 2000 - Volume 13, Issue 2
A fire in your main power switch room! Loss of electricity to over 65 percent of your facility! Evacuation of patients and staff, and loss of communication systems! Is your hospital prepared for this kind of event? This is what Carilion Roanoke Community Hospital...
by DRJ Editorial Team | Nov 20, 2007 | Spring 2000 - Volume 13, Issue 2
Nowhere in today's computer dependent world is the need for continuous operation more relevant and acute than in the arena of 9-1-1 emergency dispatch services. Dot com companies may suffer a hiccup in revenue, and B2B businesses may worry about customer...
by DRJ Editorial Team | Nov 20, 2007 | Spring 2000 - Volume 13, Issue 2
Over the past several years, through merger, acquisition and new services, U.S. Bancorp has grown into the nation’s 11th largest bank holding company. Along the way, however, those charged with business continuity for the bank began to realize the old methods of...
by DRJ Editorial Team | Nov 20, 2007 | Spring 2000 - Volume 13, Issue 2
Offsite storage and protection of vital records is an important aspect of business continuity planning. Vital records can be defined as irreplaceable records that can only be replaced after significant effort, expense and delay. This article describes important...
by DRJ Editorial Team | Nov 20, 2007 | Spring 2000 - Volume 13, Issue 2
Information is a Valuable Asset. It may seem obvious, but occasionally management needs to be reminded that information is a valuable asset and must be protected as such. This is especially apparent when presented with a business continuation plan. Often the cost of...
by DRJ Editorial Team | Nov 20, 2007 | Spring 2000 - Volume 13, Issue 2
Hurricane Floyd, was the most devastating storm of the 1999 season. Virginia and twelve other states were impacted by the storm resulting in 13 major disaster declarations. Debris-generating events including floods, tornadoes, ice storms, fires, and hurricanes...
by DRJ Editorial Team | Nov 20, 2007 | Spring 2000 - Volume 13, Issue 2
RJ’s Spring World 2000 conference in San Diego attracted the largest gathering ever of business continuity planners at any conference in the industry. The planners, including 1,000+ attendees and 800+ exhibitors, speakers and board members, met March 19 –...
by DRJ Editorial Team | Nov 20, 2007 | Spring 2000 - Volume 13, Issue 2
Emergencies strike without warning. An explosion and severe fire sweeps through an office. An earthquake shakes hundreds of computers from high storage. A sudden power outage shuts down critical equipment or processing lines. A flood submerges perishable products with...
by DRJ Editorial Team | Nov 20, 2007 | Spring 2000 - Volume 13, Issue 2
In an environment where system failures, theft and sabotage are as easy as a keystroke, the protection and continuity of your business involves a new type of technology and thinking. You are being asked to solve problems that didn’t exist a few years ago and...
by DRJ Editorial Team | Nov 20, 2007 | Spring 2000 - Volume 13, Issue 2
Whether a traditional brick and mortar company or an innovative ‘dot com,’ the issue surrounding business continuity planning essentially remains the same – business process and information systems continuity and availability. However, what has...
by DRJ Editorial Team | Nov 20, 2007 | Spring 2000 - Volume 13, Issue 2
What lunatic would ever invest in a financial instrument with an expected negative rate of return? Most of us do this, buying insurance policies at an expected loss in exchange for covering a devastating but unlikely catastrophe. Planning for disaster recovery is akin...
by DRJ Editorial Team | Nov 20, 2007 | Spring 2000 - Volume 13, Issue 2
In the 1960s information systems arrived. An early tag word of this developing technology was the term ‘application.’ At the beginning of the 2000’s, it is a concept surrounded by seriously flawed habits of thought and action. Consider the following...
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