Browsing: natural disaster

Business Continuity: Sweat the Small Stuff

No matter how confident a company is in its business continuity and data protection strategies, the best way to recover quickly from disaster is to avoid one in the first place. According to InformationWeek, many businesses...


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Disaster Preparation: Think It Through, Write It Down

As the recent inclement weather in the United States demonstrated, disaster can strike at any time. And not just Hurricane Sandy - thunder storms, tornadoes, flash floods, intense winds and many other phenomena have the potential to cause...


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Purchasing Storage Space: Long-Term Fix or Short-Term Bandage?

The Sussex County, New Jersey, Board of Chosen Freeholders – the state’s name for a county’s governing body – had a big problem on its hands in summer 2011 when torrential rains flooded a basement where...


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Dinner Party and Disaster Recovery

Think about how much fun you had at your last dinner party.  Good food, along with clever and engaging conversation, marks a successful event.  Once in a while, clever conversation turns from current events or the...


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Bolting Down Financial Records for Hurricane Season

With the summer solstice nearly upon us, managers around the country as starting to notice their offices becoming suspiciously quiet after 3 o’clock on Fridays. But while beach traffic may be on the minds of their...


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