http://www.bcpnews.com Business Continuity Industry News Thu, 09 Sep 2010 17:07:05 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en                                                      Christopher Alvord, Frank Shultz www.contingencyplanning.com The implementation of large scale Business Continuity Management (BCM) software projects is fundamentally different than with smaller installations. This article explores why these programs often fall short of their objectives. After reviewing senior management needs, three basic principles are defined to ensure effective deployment and project ... http://www.bcpnews.com/?p=1602 www.contingencyplanning.com Nir Illaani Natural disasters – such as earthquakes, floods, tsunamis, volcanoes, hurricanes and blizzards – are liable to wreak havoc upon data center operations, causing service and network outages. Although typically unexpected, the question is unfortunately when rather than ifsuch extraordinary events will occur. Still, their effects can be contained by preparing for ... http://www.bcpnews.com/?p=1598 By David Hutchins Source: contingencyplanning.com Five years have passed since Hurricane Katrina, one of the most deadly and costly hurricanes on record, devastated the Gulf Coast. While the southeastern coast is still recovering from the damage caused by the 2005 hurricane season, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) Climate Prediction Center ... http://www.bcpnews.com/?p=1592 Mark Townsend Soure: Disaster Recovery Journal If your company is like  most organizations, virtualization has become a fact in your data center. Also, it is transforming many aspects of the data center, resulting in better system utilization, application availability, and cost savings in hardware and energy use. For these reasons and others, virtualization ... http://www.bcpnews.com/?p=1585 Failure to activate BC teams and strategies could result in a serious loss of confidence and may be a serious source of embarrassment if executives attempt to fill a perceived void.   Article From: Continuity Insights, Brian Zawada from Avalution Consulting LLC   I received an e-mail right before the editorial deadline for this ... http://www.bcpnews.com/?p=1559 homelandsecuritynewswire.com/ DHS on Tuesday adopted ASIS International’s Organizational Resilience Standard as part of a program designed voluntarily to bolster the resilience of private organizations during man-made and natural disasters and emergencies. Matthew Harwood writes that as part of DHS’s Private Sector Preparedness (PS-Prep) program, the ASIS resilience standard helps private organizations tailor a ... http://www.bcpnews.com/?p=1550 www.contingencyplanning.com With the start of the 2010 hurricane season, MIR3, the innovator of real-time global notification and response technology, is urging employers to review their current business continuity and disaster recovery plans to keep employees safe and operations running should a hurricane or tropical storm hit. According to researchers, the 2010 hurricane ... http://www.bcpnews.com/?p=1541 Author: John Jackson and Dan Dec continuityinsights.com Let's explore one of the recovery strategies most often employed in the recovery solution process: the work-from-home option. Through my involvement with hundreds of enterprise organizations, it is clear that the work- from-home recovery strategy has increased in popularity over the years. There are a ... http://www.bcpnews.com/?p=1530 Alexandre Guindani, CBCP, SBCI http://www.rugbrasil.com/ Ten tips to building an effective Business Continuity Program Many people believe that the creation of a Business Continuity structure itself provides security to the enterprise and makes it safe from interruption, bringing the feeling of task accomplished. Unfortunately, business continuity is not a mere project; it must be ... http://www.bcpnews.com/?p=1490 By: Kathleen Lucey (Source: http://www.continuitycentral.com) July 13th, 2010 Just yesterday I said to a professional chef with 20+ years of high-level experience in his industry that I was ... http://www.bcpnews.com/?p=1466