Business Power Outage Emergency Response Planning in 7 Easy Steps
Alert Media
JULY 18, 2023
Power outages can be devastating, but they don’t have to slow you down. Keep your business moving with a power outage emergency response plan.
The British Airways IT Outage – An Alternative View
Plan B Consulting
JUNE 7, 2017
I noticed, with slight amusement, that every business continuity and IT armchair pundit have taken to social media to express their outrage. I have been scouring the internet for any information on why the outage happened, but the only information released so far is that it was due to a power surge.
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The British Airways IT Outage – An Alternative View
Plan B Consulting
JUNE 7, 2017
I noticed, with slight amusement, that every business continuity and IT armchair pundit have taken to social media to express their outrage. I have been scouring the internet for any information on why the outage happened, but the only information released so far is that it was due to a power surge.
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How to prepare your business to deal with an emergency this summer
CCEM Strategies
JUNE 5, 2023
From storms triggering electrical outages to droughts and heat domes that can contribute to wildfires (which in turn can cause poor air quality), all these hazards have the potential to cause detrimental impacts to your organization. Have alternatives in the event of utility outages All businesses and organizations are reliant on utilities.
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Winter safety tips for employees in private and public sectors
everbridge
DECEMBER 11, 2023
This includes utilizing various communication channels such as email, SMS, phone calls, and social media updates to keep everyone informed and safe. Prepare for power outages Ensure you have accurate contact information for employees, customers, and stakeholders to stay connected during power outages.
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BCM Basics: Business Continuity vs. Business Resilience
MHA Consulting
JANUARY 25, 2024
It focused on identifying the most critical business processes and developing plans to keep those processes going or quickly restore them in the event of an outage. The end of the 20 th century saw the increasing importance of IT, the rise of globalization, and preparations for the potential disruptions of the Y2K bug.
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Does the cloud, alone, meet 3-2-1?
OffsiteDataSync
FEBRUARY 28, 2022
In fact, some in the backup community say that storing backups in the cloud, alone, is enough to meet the 3-2-1 rule (three copies of the data in two different media with one offsite). After all, while cloud outages aren’t very common, they do occur. Microsoft Azure, March 2020: Azure experienced a six-hour outage in the Eastern U.S.
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Using Big Data To Be Crisis Aware And Leaning Forward?
Business Continuity Today
OCTOBER 12, 2021
Using Big Data patterns to predict potential crises that can impact your organization, such as severe weather, pandemics, power outages not only is a beneficial practice within businesses, it can also improve the efficiency and effectiveness of emergency and disaster management organizations.
Yes, tsunamis can happen in coastal BC. How is your business preparing?
CCEM Strategies
NOVEMBER 22, 2023
Learn your sources for tsunami notifications Familiarize yourself with tsunami notification sources such as the radio, online news, social media or television. But remember not to rely only on these sources, as a power outage could occur at any time.
XFS vs. Ext4: Which Linux File System Is Better?
Pure Storage
JANUARY 24, 2024
XFS is built for large file reads and writes, so as an example, it would be beneficial for businesses that need a server that can store and retrieve media files. Media files can be several gigabytes in size, and XFS can perform read and write operations in parallel. XFS also has integrated backup and recovery, while ext4 does not.
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Pure Storage Now a 10X Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ Leader for Primary Storage
Pure Storage
SEPTEMBER 20, 2023
Evergreen enables us to drive continuous improvements while building new, innovative solutions that we can bring to market.” – Ajit Sharma , Business Optimisation Manager, Virgin Media O2 Virgin Media O2, one of the UK’s largest entertainment and telecommunications operators, eliminated customer outages, reduced time to valuable analytics, and achieved (..)
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Using Big Data To Be Crisis Aware And Leaning Forward?
Business Continuity Today
OCTOBER 12, 2021
Using Big Data patterns to predict potential crises that can impact your organization, such as severe weather, pandemics, power outages not only is a beneficial practice within businesses, it can also improve the efficiency and effectiveness of emergency and disaster management organizations.
A Historic Year for Enterprise Resilience
everbridge
DECEMBER 17, 2021
Yet, many senior leaders and boards found themselves navigating their people and assets through the impact of new COVID variants and other critical events, such as severe weather, bushfires, cyber-attacks, IT outages, and more. Post about it on social media : Create a social post about this honor like Dow Chairman and CEO Jim Fitterling.
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Pure Storage Now a 10X Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ Leader for Primary Storage
Pure Storage
SEPTEMBER 20, 2023
Evergreen enables us to drive continuous improvements while building new, innovative solutions that we can bring to market.” – Ajit Sharma , Business Optimisation Manager, Virgin Media O2 Virgin Media O2, one of the UK’s largest entertainment and telecommunications operators, eliminated customer outages, reduced time to valuable analytics, and achieved (..)
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10 Ways to Improve Data Management with Automation
Pure Storage
AUGUST 25, 2023
Intelligent Data Tiering, On-prem and in the Cloud Organizations often have data stored on different types of storage media, such as SSDs, HDDs, and tape. System Monitoring and Alerting Monitoring and alerting allows IT teams to detect and respond to critical issues in real time, helping to prevent costly failures or outages.
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Veritas NetBackup + FlashArray//C: Faster Is Better
Pure Storage
APRIL 13, 2022
In our labs, we’ve seen 80% improvement in restore performance for parallel restores and 40% improvement during backups in our validation of this solution when compared to fast-spinning media. Ransomware Protection. With Pure FlashBlade ® and FlashArray, you can experience a new approach to mitigating and remediating ransomware attacks.
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Pure Storage Architecture 101: Built-in Performance and Availability
Pure Storage
JANUARY 10, 2024
However, this also means that during a planned or unplanned outage of a single controller, the array has lost 50% of its total performance profile. If not, a single controller failure could cause a data outage or corruption. This brings two challenges: data consistency and complexity. All controllers must act in harmony as one.
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Five Key Takeaways from the 2021 Business Continuity Event Impact Management Report
Castellan
JUNE 15, 2021
Rounding out the top 10 most-pressing events organizations are most concerned about: Cyber-attacks: 88% Power outages: 76% Data breaches: 74% Network/communication outages: 58% Pandemic/diseases: 53% Computer viruses: 52% Brand/social media damage: 51% Hurricanes: 47% Fires (not natural) 46% Earthquakes: 40%.
Improving Customer Satisfaction with Data
Pure Storage
OCTOBER 18, 2022
It’s especially true in a digital world where customer opinion can spread across social media, online publications, and rating sites like Gartner’s in seconds. It’s a strategy that has enabled us to draw insights from across our install base so we can predict and resolve issues before they become outages.
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5 Real-life business continuity planning cases you need to know
Online Computers
MAY 22, 2022
The attack also caused the COVID-19 vaccine portal to go offline and induced IT outages at five major hospitals, including Children’s Health Ireland. Gaille Media , an internet marketing company, was among the hardest-hit businesses when Hurricane Harvey slammed Texas in 2017.
COVID-19 and your response
KingsBridge BCP
SEPTEMBER 10, 2021
We still face outages and shortages. Some are infrastructure-related (power outages from Ida, February’s freeze in Texas, etc.) Is our media strategy ready to go? This is almost always the reason for a media FAIL. . Can we outsource should we need? Some are specifically supply chain issues, like the chip shortage.
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The Times They Are a-Changin’: Adapting to Change as a BCM Professional
MHA Consulting
JULY 27, 2023
Organizations now have to contend with a heightened risk of drought, flooding, heat waves, wildfires, hurricanes, political unrest, global conflict, cyberattack, power outages, active shooters, supply chain disruptions, pandemic, social-media impacts, and all the rest.
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Takeda Becomes First to Earn Diamond Tier Status for Best in Resilience™ Certification
everbridge
OCTOBER 20, 2022
Facilities can also report issues easily, like a power outage, using the Everbridge app custom buttons, which launches an incident notification to their Global Security Operations Center (GSOC).
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PREPARING COASTAL BUSINESSES FOR THE BIG 3 — #1 TSUNAMI’S
CCEM Strategies
OCTOBER 5, 2020
You can listen to the radio, read the news online, get notified via social media, or watch television. But remember not to rely heavily on these sources as a power outage may occur at any time. Notifications Familiarize yourself with tsunami notification sources.
What to do to your business before and after winter weather strikes
Disaster Safety
DECEMBER 23, 2021
Social media. In case of a power outage, use your generator. If the alarm system loses power while the building cannot be occupied, arrange for alternate security. Update status of operations on: Emergency hotlines Intranet Website. Designate times for key staff members to call into conference calls for situation overviews.
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Is your business ready for any disaster? Review this 5-point disaster preparedness checklist
Online Computers
SEPTEMBER 19, 2022
Some of the key personnel you will need to appoint include: A crisis manager, who will coordinate the overall disaster response; A communication manager, who will be in charge of communicating with employees, customers, and the media; and. A recovery manager, who will oversee the process of getting your business back up and running.
Every Business Continuity Plan Should Include Disaster Recovery
everbridge
MARCH 7, 2022
Who approves and who delivers communications through the media. The disaster recovery plan must also contain a contingency plan: What is plan B in the case of an outage, who will guide personnel through plan B, and how will employee training be conducted? External parties span stakeholders, media, and emergency contacts.
Gone With the Wind: 12 BCM Practices That Have Become Outdated
MHA Consulting
JUNE 8, 2023
The go-dark media strategy. In the days of social media and internet news sites, such an approach amounts to public relations malpractice. At the same time, a new need has developed: one for a place remote workers can go if they are no longer able to work at home (due to a power outage or whatever it might be).
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Pure Storage Now a 10X Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ Leader for Primary Storage
Pure Storage
SEPTEMBER 20, 2023
Evergreen enables us to drive continuous improvements while building new, innovative solutions that we can bring to market.” – Ajit Sharma , Business Optimisation Manager, Virgin Media O2 Virgin Media O2, one of the UK’s largest entertainment and telecommunications operators, eliminated customer outages, reduced time to valuable analytics, and achieved (..)
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How to Create a Network Disaster Recovery Plan
Pure Storage
APRIL 30, 2024
Prolonged outages can lead to direct revenue loss, contractual penalties, and lost opportunities, all of which can be avoided or minimized with an effective recovery plan. Frustrated customers voice their disappointment on popular social media sites and may take their business to the competition.
Herrera Unplugged: How to Hamstring Your BC Consultant
MHA Consulting
APRIL 27, 2024
Remind the managers that life is uncertain and the world currently more hazardous than ever thanks to the rise of cyberattacks, extreme weather, supply chain vulnerabilities, incidents of workplace violence, the heightened risk of reputational damage due to social media, global conflict, and similar threats.
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45 World Backup Day Quotes from 32 Experts for 2023
Solutions Review
MARCH 31, 2023
Securing your data is just the start: once you have a data protection strategy in place, it’s critical to consider recovery of that data should any disruption, outage, or cyber-attack occur. This includes the availability of emergency backup services, such as batteries and generators, in case of power outages.
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Threat Intelligence: A Key Capability for Our Turbulent Times
MHA Consulting
JUNE 1, 2023
Could include anything from the angry spouses of employees to disgruntled workers to trolls on social media attacking your reputation to domestic political extremists to terrorist groups located on the other side of the world. The threat of utility or network outages. Threats posed by cyberattacks: ransomware, data theft, and the rest.
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Types of Data Backups
Pure Storage
MARCH 3, 2023
The main advantage of doing full backups with every operation is that you end up with a complete copy of all your data within a single media set, which lowers recovery time. The Importance of Data Backup Testing Data backups exist to protect your data from various types of system failures, hacks, and outages.
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Arnold Clark Hack – A Car Crash in Motion?
Plan B Consulting
FEBRUARY 20, 2023
The company said they were “using our temporary systems until we are able to restore full systems safely”, and didn’t admit that they had had a cyber-attack, making the problem sound like an IT outage. For the media, this incident follows the same playbook as most other cyber incidents. Marks out of 5 – 4 Response 3.
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Reviewing the Five Types of Risk
MHA Consulting
APRIL 27, 2023
In recent years, social media has added a volatile new element to reputational risk. In fact, at many of these organizations, long-term risks such as system outages caused by cyber events, human errors, and technological-implementation errors still have the potential to impact operational capabilities.
FCK – Comments on the KFC Crisis
Plan B Consulting
MARCH 5, 2018
Much has been made in the media of the move from six distribution hubs used by Bidvest, to the one distribution hub used by DHL and there has been emphasis on the little experience DHL has in moving perishable fresh chicken. I don’t think the loss of supply chain is a business continuity issue, more of an operational issue.
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FCK – Comments on the KFC Crisis
Plan B Consulting
MARCH 5, 2018
Much has been made in the media of the move from six distribution hubs used by Bidvest, to the one distribution hub used by DHL and there has been emphasis on the little experience DHL has in moving perishable fresh chicken. I don’t think the loss of supply chain is a business continuity issue, more of an operational issue.
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5 Ways to Support Remote Employees on the Move
Pure Storage
JUNE 23, 2022
Keeping data encrypted and on centralized servers protects against both theft and loss of media in transit. It is reasonable to expect that increased telecommuting could trigger certain elements of your business continuity plan — either due to outage or load. These attacks can come in a variety of ways on all surface areas. .
6 Advantages of Deploying Cloud Adjacent Storage on Equinix Metal
Pure Storage
DECEMBER 21, 2023
To create robust disaster recovery and data backup solutions, businesses need instant access to data when there’s an outage or disruption. Pure Storage on Equinix Metal ensures smooth video streaming, transcoding, and editing for media companies. Business continuity and disaster recovery. Latency and Proximity Content delivery.
You’ve Been Hit by Ransomware. Now What?
Pure Storage
JULY 12, 2021
Some attackers even threaten to be PR liaisons to the press—either informing the media of your breach or denying it occurred if you pay up. But even internally, an outage can be disastrous. Your house should be harder to break into than your neighbors’.”. In these situations, a company’s hands may be tied.
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5 Questions to Ask Your CISO
Pure Storage
AUGUST 2, 2021
The documentation should also focus on critical infrastructure that can be rapidly restored in an outage since other applications depend on it. Also critical: preparing an external communications plan for working with the media, regulators, and legal teams. If we are under attack, how will we communicate?
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Storage and Data Protection News for the Week of March 3; Updates from IBM, Pure Storage, Veeam & More
Solutions Review
MARCH 3, 2023
Nyriad and DigitalGlue Partner to Enable Creatives to Optimize Resources Nyriad and DigitalGlue are partnering to dramatically improve the performance, resilience, and efficiency of media production workflows while removing complex IT-centric tasks and simplifying them with a streamlined user experience. Read on for more.
Why Open Source Intelligence Needs to Be Part of Your Risk Awareness Strategy
Security Industry Association
MAY 27, 2021
They could also come from non-natural sources; such threats would include theft, sabotage, terrorism, power outages, civil unrest and so many more. What: OSINT is information that is overtly available to anyone and can come from news media, social media, YouTube, sensors, government sites, publicly available cameras and many other sources.
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