Disaster Recovery
Aon Catastrophe Report Details Global Natural Disaster Loss for First Half of 2017
Impact Forecasting, Aon Benfield’s catastrophe model development team, has released its Global Catastrophe Recap: First Half of 2017 report, which evaluates the impact of the natural disaster events that occurred worldwide in the first six months of the year. Global economic losses from natural disasters for 1H 2017 were estimated ... Read more
How to Keep IT Professionals Out of the Dark
By Yaniv Valik, VP Product Management & Customer Success, Continuity Software: Like the name says, the “information technology” business thrives on – information. IT people, by definition, are supposed to know what keeps the IT system in an organization going, and what to do if there are disruptions. If they ... Read more
2018 CI Management Conference Keynote Announced
Continuity Insights has announced that Gerard Braud, an international crisis communications expert, coach, trainer, and author, will keynote the 2018 Continuity Insights Management Conference, scheduled for April 23-25, at the Hilton Miami Downtown, Miami, Florida. Discover why the facts often don’t matter as Braud presents, “Don’t Talk to the Media ... Read more
Full Program Available for Continuity Insights’ 2017 New York Conference
Two-day educational event will take place October 23-24, 2017 at the TKP New York Conference Center: Continuity Insights has announced the full conference program, including keynotes, speakers, and sessions, for the 2017 Continuity Insights New York Conference, taking place October 23-24, at the TKP Conference Center in the heart of ... Read more
Sponsor Spotlight: Rentsys Recovery Services
Rentsys Recovery Services provides comprehensive disaster recovery and business continuity solutions. The company offers professional planning services along with fully customizable and testable solutions, which include communications recovery, mobile recovery, quickship technology, colocation, managed data and cloud services, and business recovery centers. These solutions can be combined to provide organizations ... Read more
Southwest Airlines® Early Bird Contest Winners Announced
Continuity Insights is pleased to announce the winners of our 2017 Continuity Insights Management Conference Early Bird Registration drawing. Each of the five individual winners will receive a $500 Southwest Airlines gift card. We would like to congratulate the following registered attendees, the lucky winners: Andy Lapierre, SVP/Director of Business Continuity, ... Read more
Sharing the Best Resiliency Strategies and Advice
Well-respected industry leaders providing unique insights on the business continuity landscape will lead a series of “Ask the Expert” panels at the 2017 Continuity Insights Management Conference scheduled for April 24-26 in Denver. The moderators are current business continuity and resiliency professionals with first-hand experience in dealing with many of ... Read more
Welcome to Denver – Mile High Resiliency
How can you achieve new heights of resiliency within your organization? The 2017 Continuity Insights Management Conference scheduled for April 24-26 in Denver, Colorado, offers an inside track. More than 60 featured sessions and seven individual educational tracks highlight the 15th annual meeting. The conference educational tracks are devoted to ... Read more
Italy’s Premier Vows Help for 15,000+ Displaced by Quakes
Italy’s premier pledged Monday to find temporary housing for all those displaced by a series of powerful earthquakes in a central mountainous region, as the nation’s strongest temblor in 36 years pushed those needing assistance to more than 15,000. Sunday morning’s quake with a magnitude 6.6 caused no deaths or ... Read more
Amazon S3 outage spotlights disaster recovery tradeoffs
Tuesday’s Amazon S3 outage reverberated around the Internet, but cost and complexity will likely keep many users from scrambling to change their redundancy practices. One of the largest service disruptions to hit AWS in years would have had far less impact if customers added more redundancy safeguards, but many cloud ... Read more