Actor Mickey Rooney once said, “You always pass failure on your way to success.” It has been said frequently over the past few months, as our economy has taken a… Continue reading Certification More Important Than Ever

Today, business owners are faced with increased and ever changing threats. Power outages, acts of God, fires, floods, computer hackers, virus attacks and even smaller interruptions can only equal one… Continue reading Hosted Phone Systems Provide DR for Communications

Despite the longstanding goal of convergence and series of innovations designed to achieve it, the typical, contemporary data center remains a hodgepodge of heterogeneous Layer 2 protocols and standards. It… Continue reading (Still) On the Road to Convergence

In response to a Global Strategy Group survey, 85 percent of New Yorkers answered that they felt it was likely that a widespread power outage would occur in the next… Continue reading What Today’s Businesses are Doing to Protect Their Future

If you are responsible for the IT operations of a successful organization there will come a day when the closet in the back of your corporate office will no longer… Continue reading Choosing A Data Center

The following illustration shows the five-year cost performance of a hot-site agreement versus just-in-time (JIT), provisioning model applied to a mid-sized organization. The illustration compares two recovery tactics that are… Continue reading What’s the Real Cost of Disaster Recovery?

The Great Alaska Earthquake of 1964 was the most powerful recorded earthquake in U.S. and North American history. With a magnitude of 9.2 and aftershocks lasting for 18 months, damage… Continue reading Protecting a Region’s Infrastructure Assets

Tony Scott is corporate vice president and the chief Information officer (CIO) for Microsoft. In addition to information technology efforts, Scott is also the executive sponsor for Microsoft’s operational enterprise… Continue reading An Interview with Microsoft CIO Tony Scott on Operational Risk

What mistakes will cause emergency communication systems to undergo excessive stress or possibly fail in a disaster, and what steps should be taken to improve performance? One of the biggest… Continue reading Five Best Practices, Five Frequent Mistakes

Steps Integral to Healthy Rebuilding Industry leaders and government officials are not only witnesses but instrumental players in the emerging paradigm shift in the emergency management field. In regions prone… Continue reading Navigating the Road to Recovery