Business Continuity

BusinessContinuity analysis is a RiskManagement exercise necessary for most EnterpriseApplications. It is also an ExtremeChangeManagementPlan. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_continuity_planning for the description of one approach.

Some sectors have good provisions for BusinessContinuity

Sept 11, bang. Lots of financial firms that have "Global books" manage to carry on, and in the US lots of disaster recovery plans kick in very quickly. Do a search on computing articles and find your favorite stories.

Where there is risk, there is opportunity...

For consultants, marketing firms, new businesses, etc. Those calling YtwokHoax did not catch the bus to take advantage of the YearTwokBusinessOpportunity.

SecurityManagement. Don't leave home without it

see Security must be key part of OutSourcing at http://www.vnunet.com/features/1159513

US 9/11 UserStory

Location (resource) awareness technologies facilitated recovery from the disaster. See details at http://www.directionsmag.com/article.php?article_id=737&trv=1

UK DWP LessonsFromFailure

This report:

: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/11/26/dwp_network_outage/

describes a rather interesting incident in the UK. A couple of quotations from the article may be in order:

Most of the desktop computers in the UK's Department for Work and Pensions were paralysed for four days on Monday
- Hmm - I knew Mondays were difficult, but one that lasts four days is just not fair!
a limited network upgrade from Windows 2000 to Windows XP was taking place, but instead of this taking place on only a small number of the target machines, all the clients connected to the network received a partial, but fatal, 'upgrade.'
- Ah, an "upgrade" ...
MS consultants have been flown in from the US to clear up the mess.
- At whose expense, we wonder.
... a spokeswoman amusingly insisted that the Department's systems had not in fact fallen over. They were working, it was merely the case that "80 per cent of desktop computers are not connecting through to the mainframe systems."
- Interesting definition of "working".

Resources

2003 Australian Commonwealth UserStories at http://www.finance.gov.au/comcover/docs/Getting_Wired13.pdf

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