I attended a pandemic exercise at Northeastern University last year that was
really enlightening and timely considering the latest information about the
“swine flu”. Although far from a pandemic at this time, the CDC is taking
preventative measures by communicating with the general public what they can
do to avoid becoming ill. Here are a few tips that can help spread the
transmission.
Hygiene- Wash your hands, it sounds insignificant but good hygiene can
prevent the transmission by touching objects that others who have the
influenza have also touched. Avoid any hand to mouth, eye or nose contact and
cover your face if you have to sneeze or cough to also prevent the spread of
airborne germs. Social Distancing – If you don’t have to attend
gatherings with others, then don’t. The fewer people you come in contact
with lowers your risk of contracting the flu. If you do... (more)
There are several challenges when attempting a data center move or even just
consolidation. Availability is the number one priority. All the systems
during the move need to be available so production operations are not
interrupted. Depending on the technology you use some solutions will require
more downtime than others. If you are consolidating to a blade or virtual
machine infrastructure then you also need to prepare for provisioning new
servers rapidly. Here are a few tips to help maximize your data center uptime
while facilitating a move, migration and or consolidation.
Avai... (more)
Actually, it isn't funny it is kind of sad at the number of organizations
who still don't understand the value of social media marketing. I have
probably met with a dozen companies, founders and senior level executives who
have all said. "I don't get it" or "Our company isn't ready for social media"
or worse yet just aren't capitalizing on the social media programs they
already have in place. So here are 5 misconceptions about social media
marketing.
1.) It is a stand alone marketing program - Wrong. Social media is a
complimentary marketing option to help supplement and promote... (more)
With print advertising declining due to the use of the internet as the
primary source of information today, what is the disaster recovery plan of
our nation’s newspaper industry? More and more newspapers are facing the
challenge of declining advertising revenue and are looking for ways to offset
these costs.
The Boston Globe recently wrote an editorial column asking their readers,
since they already pay about $10 dollars a week for delivery, if they would
be willing to pay $10 a week for reading the paper on their website. The
answer unfortunately is no. As creatures of habit we... (more)
Businesses in the southeastern United States have been hit hard with
hurricanes in the last few years, and 2008 was no exception. As a project
manager and CBCP for over 1600 disaster recovery deployments I can share real
examples of how entire data centers were failed over to the DR operations
center in preparation for hurricanes, while others (due to poor planning) did
not have the same success. Those that were successful were efficient in
organizing the RTO of their communication servers which helped them
prioritize the recovery efforts as well utilize creative testing procedur... (more)