Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery: Protecting Your Assets and Dealing with “The Emergency”

December 18, 2014 Bob Withers Cisco, Cloudera, Featured, Professional Development, Project Management, Routing & Switching, Technology, Training in Business

Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery (BC/DR) planning is the process of developing the plans, processes and procedures to respond to the range of incidents. We start with understanding the essential functions of an organization, called Business Impact Analysis (BIA). In life, we set the same priorities: protection of family and friends, shelter, food and water and other life-giving essentials.

Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery: Business Impact and Risk Analysis

December 11, 2014 Bob Withers Cisco, Cloudera, Featured, Professional Development, Project Management, Routing & Switching, Technology, Training in Business

A famous Monty Python routine contains the tag line “No One Expects the Spanish Inquisition!” As funny and as absurd as the scene may be, we can learn strategies for disruptions that either prevent us from performing less-important tasks or force us to completely recover as best we can from a total interruption of our normal lives or our business operations.