Are businesses prepared for skyrocketing energy costs to combat extreme heat? Can Midwestern farmers handle average crop losses of up to 73 percent in the coming decades? Should businesses invest… Continue reading Climate Change: A Risk Businesses Cannot Ignore

A study conducted by Osterman Research found that 43 percent of employees have accessed sensitive corporate data on their personal mobile devices while on an unsecured network at places such… Continue reading Critical Steps to Protect Data on Mobile Devices

Change. Change is a good thing. But sometimes it can be a challenge to keep up with the latest changes, trends, ideas, practices and technologies in our industry. Ours is… Continue reading From the President’s Desk: Change Is Good

As I step down as chairperson of the Disaster Recovery Journal’s Editorial Advisory Board (EAB), I have been thinking about what I could share that would benefit new conference attendees… Continue reading Get the Most out of Your DRJ Attendance

We live in the era of instant access – always on. If a website takes too long to load, we instantly move on. If an ATM doesn’t dispense cash, it’s… Continue reading How DRaaS is Changing the Data Protection Game for the SME

Ebola, one of the latest crisis making headlines, has become a common household word these past few years. It also sent hospitals, airports, college campuses, and other public places scrambling… Continue reading How to Create a Disaster Plan that Accommodates the Latest Headline Crises

Although this topic makes people uncomfortable when discussed, it does need to be discussed. While you have a higher chance of being hit by lightning than being involved in an… Continue reading The Active Shooter

In the early 1990s I spent several years as the director of emergency services for one of the largest federal and state office complexes in the Midwest, and within a… Continue reading The Language of Preparedness

Managing business operational and availability risk should begin early in any application or business process lifecycle. Engage ITIL’s (information technology infrastructure library) service model to ensure that disaster recovery (DR)… Continue reading 5 Keys to Limiting Risk Exposures with IT Service Management

Gen. Eric Shinseki, retired chief of staff of the US Army and former secretary of veteran affairs said once, “If you don’t like change, you’re going to like irrelevance even… Continue reading Change Change Change