Do you have a business continuity plan for your business? Most large companies spend millions of dollars on comprehensive plans that include “hot sites” for immediate recovery and dedicated teams to begin recovery efforts the moment disaster strikes to ensure there is little impact to their ability to service customers. But most small- and medium-size businesses have nothing. What would you do if your office burned to the ground? How quickly could you recover if your office sat under eight feet of water for days? How would you service customers if you were without power for a week?
Archive for February, 2008
PreferenceMan - Feb - 29th
PreferenceMan - Feb - 29th
Am I alone in my grieving for the early childhood of my daughter? I look back to those pink and white glory days with nostalgia, dreaming of when she sat before a collection of dolls or plastic ponies, combing manes and tails and humming a tune from the latest Little Kitty movie.
Her bedroom was swathed in cotton candy pink tulle, large bows everywhere; a collection of powder puffs bright patches of color in the sunlight filtering through chiffon drapes. Where has that darling little girl gone?
PreferenceMan - Feb - 29th
Recently, I wrote an article about Bird Flu and the problems it caused for human operated toll-booth on toll-roads. The article apparently hit a major publication and several high-traffic online websites. Then I was asked to further elaborate on my points of contention. One gentleman emailed me and said recently that a lady at the toll-booth was wearing gloves.
No surprise here, was it paper cuts, did she have warts or was she worried about contracting a virus or disease? I would be worried. Airborne, touching, etc are all serious issues. Yes, regarding the issues of Toll Booths with humans in them and the possible transferring of pathogens, we did a study on the possible effects of Bird Flu pandemic and decided that it would severely impact the economy.
PreferenceMan - Feb - 29th
Income protection insurance is a viable form of protection insurance in this day and age. The cost of living in the UK actively rises every year and yet wages and salary packages do not seem to follow suit. As a result, it is easy to fall into poverty should anything happen to a vital member of a household and they became unable to work because of unforeseen redundancy, long term sickness or accident. The cost of living allows no room for manoeuvre, so you can either afford to eat and pay your rent or mortgage, or you cannot. There is no in between.
PreferenceMan - Feb - 29th
The digital revolution in the television industry seems to have taken ages to reach the consumer. It has been difficult because it needs the co-operation of the companies that produce the equipment to display, receive and transmit digital pictures, the TV companies that broadcast the programs and the film and television industry that produce the films and television that we watch. This has been aggravated by the fact that the industry standard for digital technology has been disputed and people have been hesitant to commit to one technology or the other. This article will trace the evolution from standard analog TV to the digital TV.