Multicloud Disaster Recovery
Disaster Recovery » Business Continuity
by Praveen B
4y ago
The Need for Multicloud Disaster Recovery Datacenter disruptions can result from a variety of factors that are natural, manmade and technical in nature. During an emergency, recovery from the disaster and restoring operations are the IT department’s primary concerns. That is why backups are so important. Datacenter disruptions aren’t always localized. Cloud based services and virtual machines can be suddenly and unexpectedly impacted, leading to irreparable loss of large volumes of data. Relying solely on a single provider – be it local or cloud based – for all your backup needs can be risky i ..read more
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Snow Brings New Jersey to a Standstill
Disaster Recovery » Business Continuity
by Praveen B
4y ago
Snowstorms brought the state of New Jersey to a standstill on Thursday, November 17. The use of major highways, bridges and transport facilities was severely disrupted. Daily commuters were left stranded. Roadways Interstate 280 was lined with cars as bumper to bumper traffic clogged the entire highway. Although no serious injuries have been noted, more than 550 accidents were registered. The State Police Department received more than 1000 rescue calls for people stuck on the road for hours on end. Heavy snows later gave way to flooded roads as the snow began to thaw. Traffic across the city o ..read more
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Business Impacts of Climate Change
Disaster Recovery » Business Continuity
by Praveen B
4y ago
Experts confirm that climate change will impact business revenue by nearly 25% over the next eight decades. Rising temperatures on a global scale could bring down the world’s GDP by tens of trillions of dollars. Within a decade, the world’s global temperature is expected to rise by an annual average of 1.5°C, leading to irreparable damage and impact to survival, health, sustenance, potable water levels, human safety and economic growth. Restricting the annual rise in temperatures to 1.5°C already implies a mammoth transformation in how industries leverage energy, land, transport, industrial sy ..read more
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Some Car Safety Tips for the Winter Season
Disaster Recovery » Business Continuity
by Praveen B
4y ago
Cold weather during winters severely impacts car safety. Those using vehicles often ensure they are adequately prepared well before the season even begins. These mitigation measures usually start in the weeks prior to Thanksgiving which falls on Thursday, November 22, 2018 this year. Getting your vehicle acclimatized to the intense weather conditions that lie ahead can save you from unnecessary hassles and delays on the road. Besides tanking up on fuel, avoiding high speeds and cruise control, there are some other car safety precautions you can take to ensure a hazard free journey while on the ..read more
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DDoS Attacks
Disaster Recovery » Business Continuity
by Praveen B
4y ago
The term DDoS attack is fairly well known in the business arena today. Defining these cyber hazards can be tricky. Nevertheless, the impact they can have on your business operations can be devastating. DDoS Attacks Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks disrupt services such as access to a website, an internet service provider (ISP), an online stock market and so on. All online entities are vulnerable to these hazards. The hacker floods the target service with a high volume of false traffic through multiple machines. The server resources get overloaded and the site becomes inaccessible ..read more
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IDB bankrolls Jamaica’s Disaster Recovery Funds
Disaster Recovery » Business Continuity
by Praveen B
4y ago
Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) has boosted Jamaica’s disaster recovery funds by $ 285 million. The country, with nearly three million inhabitants, figures in the list of top 20 countries in the world that are highly prone to natural disasters. The monetary support is expected to improve the island nation’s preparedness and mitigation measures manifold. The additional disaster recovery funds come at a time when the cost of implementing prevention, recovery and restoration measures in the country has been rising steeply at a steady pace. Jamaica has a high incidence of cyclones, earthquak ..read more
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Trump Sanctions $19 Billion Towards Disaster Aid
Disaster Recovery » Business Continuity
by Praveen B
4y ago
President Donald Trump signed a $19 billion dollar bill last Thursday towards disaster aid that also covers infrastructural restoration and recovery. $3.3 billion would go to the Army Corps of Engineers to Reverse damages suffered over the last three years owing to environmental hazards, Improve protection against floods and Enhance infrastructural resiliency. The Defense Department will get $2.7 billion for repairing broken down military installations. $1 billion have been allocated towards mending losses incurred during Hurricane Michael in 2018, for instance at the Tyndall Air Force Base i ..read more
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AEON Organizes Disaster Management Workshop
Disaster Recovery » Business Continuity
by Praveen B
4y ago
AEON organized a workshop on disaster management, elaborating on various generic, prevention and mitigation measures that organizations of various sizes and complexities can implement as part of their business continuity strategy. AEON has been pursuing its objective of raising disaster management awareness through workshops and seminars over a sustained period of time. Those in attendance found the session informative. AEON carried out the exercise in association with various organizations that specialize in mitigation and recovery. The objective was to get participants up to date on the late ..read more
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Earthquake Hits the Western Shoreline of Australia
Disaster Recovery » Business Continuity
by Praveen B
4y ago
Thousands of local citizens were disturbed from their sleep as a 5.4 Richter scale reading earthquake erupted in Kojonup, a pastoral region to the south east of Perth. The impact was at its strongest at around 5 am WA time when residents in and around Perth and Albany were shaken out of their beds. Fortunately, the Joint Australian Tsunami Warning Centre ruled out the possibility of floods and inundations. Tsunami warnings in Australia have been widespread, especially in the recent weeks. The Probabilistic Tsunami Hazard Assessment (PTHA) published by Geoscience Australia has listed out more t ..read more
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FCC to Gauge the Resilience of Wireless Carriers to Catastrophes
Disaster Recovery » Business Continuity
by Praveen B
4y ago
While restoration measures in the aftermath of Hurricane Florence and Michael are still underway, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is taking stock of existing wireless network systems across the country in order to identify gaps and areas of improvement. The wireless network fraternity has initiated a thorough examination of the Wireless Resiliency Cooperative Framework. The end objective of the initiative is to Ensure service continuity during a crisis Increase awareness amongst citizens Reducing the time required to restore systems Leading service vendors have been requested to pr ..read more
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