The majority of business continuity/disaster recovery articles written for trade journals are directed toward the technical audience. There is an abundance of information available on the steps necessary to implement… Continue reading Getting Started

Corporate governance is the system by which companies are directed and controlled. It is the way in which the corporate boards and officers set the policies and handle the affairs… Continue reading Regulatory Compliance

You are the business continuity planner for a large financial services company having just completed an estimated three-year project to develop and implement a corporate-wide business continuity program. This program… Continue reading Business Continuity Planning in the Real World

With all the terms and abbreviations being used today regarding risk management – BCP, DR, EBR, RPO, RTO, SLA, etc. – a conversation about data protection and risk mitigation sounds… Continue reading Acronym Soup – BCP, DR, EBR… What Does It All Mean?

When we think of Niigata prefecture in Japan, we think of exceptionally delicious rice, or perhaps the exceptional sake produced from that delicious rice, but not critical business infrastructure. However,… Continue reading Earthquakes Rattle Supply Chain

With all the miles I log driving the vast Texas highways, sooner or later I know the odds will catch up with me and my car will end up with… Continue reading Top-5 Causes of Replication Failure

Taking Care of Human Emotions While Protecting Your Business’ Bottom Line Reasonable variations of human emotions are expected at the workplace. People have feelings. Emotions that accumulate, collect force, expand… Continue reading Emotional Continuity Management

For most companies concerned with their ability to recover print-to-mail processes after a business interruption, three hurricanes in six weeks would be reason enough to question their recovery capabilities. However,… Continue reading Insurance Company Looks For Silver Lining

How do you begin planning specific recovery strategies for a disaster event that hasn’t happened? Industry best practices and your own good sense suggest that you use the worst-case scenario… Continue reading Modeling Events To Affect a Recovery

A number of years ago when I became CIO of a large international company, my operations manager advised me that our disaster recovery hotsite contract was up for renewal and… Continue reading What Every CIO Should Know About DR