An entrepreneur of my acquaintance, in a rush to get his new company up and running, launched his new online publishing venture with a press release and great industry fanfare.
Business Disaster? Won’t Happen to Me
As fast as you can say business disaster, your business can go up in smoke. That’s what happened a while back to Castle Carpet One.
Crude Oil Plummets After London Disaster
Light sweet crude, after opening at a record high of $62.30, this morning plummeted to $59.05 after news of the London subway bombings on Thursday morning. The price started a rally but didn’t go back above $61.
Disaster Proof Your Business
Who cares about which side of the toast hits the floor first? If it’s your toast, and your floor, then the answer is probably you. But fate may have a lot more than a dirty breakfast in store for you, especially when it comes to your business.
Disaster Recovery: A Critical Business Issue
In today’s environment, the effects of a long-term operations outage could have catastrophic consequences to an organization, making contingency planning a critical business issue rather than exclusively a data processing issue.
Be Prepared, In the Event Computer Disaster Strikes
Businesses and individuals alike have all grown to rely on computers. The reliance is never more apparent than when something happens to the horrid little box that makes our lives easier. We expect computers to react a certain way, in certain situations. It nearly always comes as a surprise when the beloved little box, know as a computer, refuses to boot up. Probably even more shocking, is the dawning that we’ve neglected to backup or prepare for the unforeseen disaster that has just been thrust upon us.
Ask a Disaster Recovery Specialist
What would happen to your data if: a. you backed your SUV over your laptop? b. your laptop spent two days in a sunken cruise ship submerged at the bottom of the Amazon River? c. firefighters rescued your computer’s scarred carcass from a flaming warehouse?
Learn About SQL Server Disaster Recovery from Greg Robidoux of Edgewood Solutions
Disaster recovery is a topic on the minds of many DBAs. Learn some of the basics about SQL Server disaster recovery from a leading expert in the area, Greg Robidoux of Edgewood Solutions. Greg is currently the Vice Chair for the PASS DBA Special Interest Group (SIG). In addition, he recently gave two presentations at the PASS Summit in Seattle on Change Management and Project Management for DBAs.
Are You Asking For Permission or Courting Disaster?
Permission based e-lists and ezines can be used by business and community groups to build relationships with both current and future sponsors, clients and members.
Going solo? Avoid getting coached for disaster
Strong, independent people tend to have little experience in getting help, so they often end up with the coach from hell. They grab the first resource that comes along and follow instructions brilliantly. Too late, they realize they’re following a lost leader.