As 3 category 4 hurricanes sweep through the Pacific Ocean, it is fair to discuss the impact this may have on the disaster recovery efforts of businesses throughout the region. Luckily for the state of Hawaii, none of the hurricanes are expected to hit their shores. Unfortunately the same cannot be said for the citizens […]
Last night I was settling down to watch an episode of Criminal Minds on Netflix only to discover the service was unavailable. I waited to see if it would be restored but after 15 minutes there was still no resumption in service. I was pretty annoyed – after all, I pay for a premium subscription and don’t […]
Disaster recovery (DR) planning is a complex and time-consuming task when done properly, which helps to explain why, for the past few years, surveys have shown the number of companies with continuity plans on the decline. In one annual PricewaterhouseCoopers study, companies with DR plans are down from roughly 50% of those previously surveyed to approximately […]
Recently, a business contact (Frank) lamented that he diligently wrote a DR plan and no one in the organization seemed to care. This included senior management, middle management and rank and file employees. He shared the plan with me. From what I could see, the plan was well written and well thought out. There were […]
