The Federal Communication Commission (FCC) has pledged to examine communications infrastructure breakdowns that hampered emergency response and rescue efforts in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, saying it would aid victims of the crisis.
Disaster relief crews are adopting RFID tags to help them identify victims of Hurricane Katrina. Adopting RFID for disaster recovery in this manner improves record keeping, VeriChip said. VeriChip said: "While difficult to think about, such...
NetSuite on the other hand said it would mention it, though not make a virtue of it, citing a number of customers who had expressed relief that important customer, financial and sales data had survived Hurricane Katrina in one recent example.
Colt is responsible for the telephony disaster recovery and business continuity planning for insurance company Swiss Re's new 'gherkin' tower in London, which re-routes incoming calls to another site in the event of an outage.
The events of 7/7 have focused a whole community on disaster recovery. An independent disaster recovery agency, the Continuity Forum, has seen a 75 per cent rise in inquiries from companies seeking advice on how to keep trading in the event of an...
Schlumberger, newly bereft of its IT services wing Sema, looks like it could be shedding more of its tech divisions - with disaster recovery number one for the chop. Schlumberger's disaster recovery business is a hangover from its acquisition of...