SANTA BARBARA, Calif. — As hurricane season officially begins June 1 and communities in the U.S. and neighboring countries prepare for the threat of storms, Direct Relief announced today the delivery of Hurricane Preparedness Packs to nine U.S. states and seven countries most likely to be affected during hurricane season. Direct Relief’s Hurricane Preparedness program… Continue reading Direct Relief Delivers Hurricane Packs As FEMA Urges Preparedness

PITTSBURGH – Avere Systems today announced the results of a third-party survey that shows NAS Optimization as the top choice of solutions being considered by IT executives to meet the challenges to storage performance posed by virtualization. In the first half of 2012, Gatepoint Research invited more than 1,000 selected executives to participate in the… Continue reading Survey Shows NAS Optimization as Top Choice for Overcoming Storage Performance Challenges in Virtualized Environments

WASHINGTON – Hurricane Season begins June 1, 2012, FEMA is providing additional tools for federal, state, local, tribal and territorial officials to alert and warn the public about severe weather.  Using the Commercial Mobile Alert System, or CMAS, which is a part of FEMA’s Integrated Public Alert and Warning System, this structure will be used… Continue reading FEMA URGES PREPAREDNESS FOR HURRICANES AND SEVERE WEATHER

Viby J, Denmark — Debriefing Software, the experts in cloud-based Software as a Service (SaaS) solutions for IBM Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM), Storwize and SVC solutions, today announced: a major upgrade to its Wizards for Storwize application, Heat Maps for TSM, an enhanced Wizards Control Center (WCC) and the availability of its new Dynamic API… Continue reading Debriefing Software add new features to the Wizards Storage Portal

Islandia, NY — MaxxVault LLC specializes in Enterprise Electronic Document Management Systems (EDMS) which provide enhanced document security, cost reductions through improved efficiency and tools to ensure regulatory compliance. SymQuest Group Inc. designs, installs, and supports business technologies that handle the information flow of electronic and physical communications thereby allowing our clients to focus on… Continue reading MaxxVault Welcomes SymQuest Group Inc. as a Reseller Partner

CHARLESTON, W. Va. — If you are one of the many West Virginians with a cat, dog, other pet or service animal, now is a good time to start planning for what to do with your furry or feathered friend in the event of a future disaster. The Federal Emergency Management Agency has worked with… Continue reading In Preparing for Disasters, Don’t Forget Fido

What happens if the company or organization you work for finds itself in a social media crisis, but hasn’t invested in a social media crisis plan? What do you do when the stress of the situation starts to escalate and you’re still left unclear of your role within the crisis? When you feel unhelpful, confused… Continue reading The Employee’s Guide to Social Media Crisis Management

A recent survey undertaken in New Zealand by Massey University revealed that less than 10% of SMEs have a business continuity plan in place despite the fact that over 40% of them have experienced a crisis in the last five years.  The survey found a high degree of vulnerability in SMEs across New Zealand and… Continue reading Business Continuity Planning – something just for the big global corporates?

Federal regulations require that Medicare and Medicaid-certified nursing homes have written emergency plans and provide employees with emergency preparedness training.  According to the study, these plans often lack specific steps such as coordinating with local authorities, notifying relatives or even pinning nametags and medication lists to residents in an evacuation. The net-net of this… the… Continue reading Depressing HHS study finds gaps continue to exist in nursing home emergency preparedness…they are overall woefully unprepared