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Recovery Sites: To Insource of Outsource… That is the Question
Michael Croy, Business Continuity Solutions
CIO.com 12.02.2004
Disaster recovery hot sites are a hot topic these days, and for good reason. Information systems have grown more important to the success of an organization than ever before. Unless executives carefully evaluate their investments in recovery sites, their organizations can get burned by insufficient access, slow recovery times, and unexpected costs.

The ILM Socialization Experiment
James E. Geis, Director, Integrated Solutions Development
Storage Management Solutions 09.01.2004
The IT industry has yet another nebulous acronym stirring fear, uncertainty and doubt among C-level executives and IT managers across the globe: Information Lifecycle Management (ILM). There is no clear-cut way to approach ILM from an enterprise-wide standpoint. Companies need to socialize their organizations to understand the importance of their approach to ILM.

The Business Value of Data
Michael Croy, Director, Business Continutiy Solutions
Disaster Recovery Journal 07.01.2004
What’s the value of your organization’s data? The ability of business and IT managers to answer that question directly correlates to the success of their company’s business continuity and data recovery efforts. The answer is difficult to provide, given the massive amounts of data coursing through organizations and the fact that the value of data changes frequently and quickly in today’s unpredictable, highly competitive, and increasingly regulated business environment.

Ten Ways to Drive ILM
James E. Geis, Director, Integrated Solutions Development
Computerworld 06.22.2004
Jim Geis, Forsythe’s director of system solutions and services, outlines effective practices for companies to manage information so it’s protected, deliverable, organized, and usable to ensure compliance – even as industry and government refine the details of information lifecycle management (ILM).

Six Tips for IT in Planning a Business Continuity Strategy
Michael Croy, Director, Business Continuity Solutions
Computerworld 05.04.2004
IT has begun to be recognized for what it is: a tool that has the power to bring business continuity in alignment with overarching business goals. Here is a strategy for the IT department to consider when determining its role in closing the business continuity gap.

What Business Continuity Means for Compliance
Michael Croy, Director, Business Continuity Solutions
Optimize 05.01.2004
Sarbanes-Oxley, the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, Graham-Leach-Bliley, and other industry-specific rule changes have ushered in a regulatory era that greatly values risk management and increase the penalties for companies and individuals whose risk-management practices fall short. Disaster recovery and business continuity represent a central, but frequently misunderstood, component of a company’s overarching risk-management strategy. Successful, long-term compliance and related productivity gains depend on clearly up misconceptions about business continuity and weaving it into the strategic fabric.