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2008 Articles

Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery: How to Prepare Your Business
Michael Croy, Director, Business Continuity Solutions
eWeek.com 07.24.2008
Companies frequently don't like to think about business continuity, disaster recovery, the expense of hot sites or even off-site storage. But, as Michael Croy explains, you have to ask yourself how much you're willing to lose. If you can't afford to lose it, then BC/DR is for you.

Optimize Your Data Center Migration with ITIL
Mike Tainter, Director, IT Service Management
ITSMWatch.com 07.21.2008
Businesses today are in constant motion, and growth often necessitates bigger data centers and greater capability. Migration of a data center is a major challenge—an exercise in process maturity, project management and business continuity. Using ITIL best practices can lead to a streamlined migration and deliver greater maturity in the new environment.

Tech Road Map: EKMI
David Brown, Managing Consultant, Security Advisory Services
InformationWeek.com 06.28.2008
Information security pros do put stock in encryption--it was named the third-most-effective security practice in our most recent Strategic Security Survey, behind only firewalls and antivirus products. However, there have been obstacles along the path to ubiquitous encryption of data, including weak ciphers, deployment and integration issues, and, perhaps most notably, key management.

Creating an Actionable ITSM Roadmap
Bob Simmons, Master Consultant, IT Service Management
ITSMWatch.com 05.13.2008
One thing to keep in mind while scoping each project is to avoid trying to do too much, too quickly. A large project should be broken into phases wherein critical gaps and quick wins are addressed first. Later phases can then expand upon the successes of earlier phases. As time progresses, continue to review and evolve the roadmap based upon the current conditions, priorities and information at hand.

A Winning Recipe for Successful VoWiFi Deployment and Operation
Darrell L. Epps, Director, Network Solutions
Internet Telephony 05.01.2008
After a rather slow start, voice over wireless LAN services (VoWLAN or VoWiFi) are finally starting to become more mainstream, particularly in industries like healthcare and retail sales where much of the workforce is mobile within a building or campus throughout the work day, but still needs to be able to communicate at any time. However, horror stories of VoWiFi implementations fraught with problems still abound. So how do VoWiFi adopters avoid the pitfalls and maximize their potential for success? Here are some ingredients that will help.

Core Principles of BC/DR
Peter Laz, Senior Consultant, Business Continuity/Disaster Recovery
Disaster Recovery Journal 04.01.2008
When effective managers are building any kind of program or looking to enhance a current program, one of the questions they ask is, “what do successful programs have in common?” Establishing a business continuity or IT disaster recovery capability is no different. There are common elements that successful programs share. Four of those elements are described.

Use ITIL to Enhance Your Disaster Recovery Capabilities
Mike Tainter, Director, IT Service Management
ITSMwatch.com 02.01.2008
So, you’ve developed and implemented your business continuity and disaster recovery (BC/DR) plan … now what?, asks ITSM Watch columnist Mike Tainter, Director, IT Service Management at Forsythe.

Extreme Makeover Data Center Edition - Part 2
Mark Bolsoni, Product Director, Advanced Network Technologies
Internet Telephony 02.01.2008
Just as IP telephony virtualized the need for PBXs to be situated in every physical office location, the next generation network components are enabling companies to view their data center equipment as true virtualized resources. Last month we considered three network-related elements of the virtualized data center to think about when looking to optimize cost. Here we consider three others.

Incident Response: Communication is Key
David Brown, Managing Consultant, Security Advisory Services
Security Magazine 01.2008
When an incident response team is faced with a potential security breach or data loss, there are myriad concerns to address. Many incident management plans address technical issues such as investigation, containment and recovery. But, it is essential that each phase of the plan also covers communication – a key requirement for effective incident response.

When Disaster Strikes Will Your People Be Prepared?
Michael Croy, Director, Business Continuity Solutions
Disaster Recovery Journal 01.01.2008
While many organizations have built plans for the recovery of their IT operations in the event of a disaster, the well being of their most valuable asset – their people – is often overlooked. Within the walls of the data center, we can accurately measure what the impacts of a disaster will be. But the human response to a disaster cannot be predicted.