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Real World Disaster Recovery: A disaster like Hurricane Katrina raises important IT questions
White Papers I've been involved in D/R exercises for a variety of customers, and I was also peripherally involved on a D/R event that happened after Hurricane Katrina. From the article in IBM Systems Magazine: "Disaster recovery (D/R) planning and testing has...
[April 17, 2008, 17:36]
Real World Disaster Recovery: A disaster like Hurricane Katrina raises important IT questions
White Papers I've been involved in D/R exercises for a variety of customers, and I was also peripherally involved on a D/R event that happened after Hurricane Katrina. From the article in IBM Systems Magazine: "Disaster recovery (D/R) planning and testing has...
[March 7, 2008, 9:57]
Disaster Recovery for the Real World: Surviving Hurricane Katrina
White Papers Listen to this TechRepublic Webcast, now available on demand, to hear Peter Haas, Director of Technology at the Supreme Court of Louisiana, discuss his organization's experience with tape backups during the Hurricane Katrina disaster.
[May 25, 2007, 10:24]
Learn how advanced planning helped Procter & Gamble and Folgers Coffee survive Hurricane Katrina
White Papers A business continuity plan helps companies keep critical business functions running during an emergency. It includes communicating with employees and recovering or relocating facilities. Disaster recovery is the process of recovering or rebuilding...
[July 22, 2009, 11:31]
A Contact Center Solution From Avaya Keeps Power Customers in Touch, in Spite of Hurricane Katrina
White Papers Responsible for generating and delivering electric power to 2.7 million customers in Southeast Texas and most of Mississippi, Arkansas and Louisiana, including New Orleans. The challenge was to enable six geographically-separate call centers to...
[April 18, 2007, 1:00]
Google fends off Katrina criticism
News Accused by a Democrat in the US Congress of "airbrushing history", Google said it has now replaced pre-Hurricane Katrina satellite images of the Gulf Coast region with more recent aerial photographs. The company confirmed it had swapped out the...
[April 3, 2007, 9:29]
Tech community rally around Katrina's victims
News The tech community is rallying around victims of Hurricane Katrina, offering technical assistance, aiding the homeless and gathering relief donations. Hurricane Katrina came ashore along the US Gulf Coast early on Monday, wreaking havoc on...
[September 1, 2005, 16:35]
Dell admits Indian mistake
Talkback I lived in New Orleans at the time Hurricane Katrina hit. They even refused to bend the rules for us, given that it was their fault and, perhaps most of all, that we were affected by Katrina! Granted, we did this somewhat later than what was normal...
[May 13, 2006, 21:11]
IBM and Pragmatix Put Technology Infrastructure Out of Harm's Way for Financial Services Company
White Papers Pragmatix, Inc.an IBM Business Partner based in Elmsford, New York, immediately understood what worried the managers of Commonwealth Advisors, Inc.after Hurricane Katrina wreaked havoc in Commonwealth's home state of Louisiana in 2005.
[April 26, 2008, 1:02]
Microsoft Online Services Customer Story: British Petroleum
White Papers When Hurricane Katrina struck, BP needed quick access to accurate storm information and a complete understanding of its people and facilities. After Hurricane Katrina, BP decided to implement the Hurricane Management System that combines the 3-D...
[April 16, 2008, 1:02]
Panel Discussion: Back From the Brink - Lessons Learned on the Front Lines of Disaster
White Papers Hurricane Katrina devastated the Gulf Coast. Less than a month later, Hurricane Rita hit, then Hurricane Wilma. Flood waters ravaged data centers, employees went missing, entire communities were evacuated.
[August 18, 2006, 0:00]
Don't Get Stuck When the Lights Go Out: Plan for Disaster Recovery Now
White Papers When hurricane Katrina swept through the southeast, e-mail, data storage, networks, data centers, wireless and BlackBerry communications capabilities were all wiped out. Hurricanes, fires, floods and other natural disasters pose unique challenges...
[January 4, 2007, 17:40]
21st Century School Program Renews Hope: Cisco Helps Rebuild Education in Gulf Region
White Papers Cisco establishes 21st Century School Program to help re-establish the educational infrastructure system after Hurricane Katrina devastates the Gulf Coast Region.
[January 7, 2008, 0:01]
Learning for the 21st Century: $40 Million Investment Aims to Improve Schools
White Papers Cisco's 21st Century Schools Program is investing $40 million into schools in the gulf region, helping students and families recover from Hurricane Katrina and preparing them for the future.
[January 7, 2008, 0:01]
Disaster Recovery: Are You Prepared?
White Papers Scores of IT infrastructure professionals have been working night and day to recover data centers that were either devastated or put out of service due to Hurricane Katrina. The lucky ones, which were prepared for such a catastrophic disaster...
[August 18, 2006, 1:00]
Nortel Network Case Study: Louisiana Superdome
White Papers In the aftermath of hurricane Katrina in 2005, the Superdome was severely damaged. One of America's most recognizable landmarks, the Louisiana Superdome first opened in 1975 as a large, multi-purpose sports and exhibition facility located in the...
[January 11, 2008, 0:01]
Preparing For Emergencies: Secure Remote Working For Continuity Of Operations
White Papers Using real-world examples - such as a field hospital set-up outside New Orleans for victims of Hurricane Katrina - we'll address technical requirements for implementing a disaster-ready remote access solution.
[July 6, 2007, 1:00]
Can wikis change the Web?
News Moments after the eye of Hurricane Katrina made landfall along the US Gulf Coast on 29 August, news agencies everywhere rushed to report the story. As evidenced in the aftermath of Katrina and the London bombings a month earlier, wikis can be a...
[November 16, 2005, 17:05]
Tis the season of Christmas scams
News In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, Web sites popped up that sought to defraud Internet users who thought they were doing good. Since Katrina we have seen the Red Cross show up much more frequently in the list of top-phished Web sites," said...
[December 22, 2005, 9:10]
Hello Dolly! Hurricane Preparations
Blog Katrina and the near miss of Rita (at least for Houston) reminded me again that the power utility companies don't have the manpower needed to quickly rebuild the electrical infrastructure on the Gulf Coast.
[July 27, 2008, 20:29]
