Disaster Recovery Planning Tools

Disaster recovery planning website:

http://www.drj.com/new2dr/w2_002.htm

From the author (Geoffrey H. Wold):
"Disaster recovery planning involves more than off-site storage or backup processing. Organizations should also develop written, comprehensive disaster recovery plans that address all the critical operations and functions of the business. The plan should include documented and tested procedures, which, if followed, will ensure the ongoing availability of critical resources and continuity of operations.
The probability of a disaster occurring in an organization is highly uncertain. A disaster plan, however, is similar to liability insurance: it provides a certain level of comfort in knowing that if a major catastrophe occurs, it will not result in financial disaster. Insurance alone is not adequate because it may not compensate for the incalculable loss of business during the interruption or the business that never returns.
Other reasons to develop a comprehensive disaster recovery plan include:

• Minimizing potential economic loss.
• Decreasing potential exposures
• Reducing the probability of occurrence
• Reducing disruptions to operations
• Ensuring organizational stability
• Providing an orderly recovery
• Minimizing insurance premiums
• Reducing reliance on certain key individuals
• Protecting the assets of the organization
• Ensuring the safety of personnel and customers
• Minimizing decision-making during a disastrous event
• Minimizing legal liability

The second part of this series will describe specific methods for organizing and writing a comprehensive disaster recovery plan."

Disaster Recovery World© 1997

Job as TA

Usability TA.

http://www.ischool.washington.edu/people/studenttempopenings-s3.aspx

Deadline: March 2nd (Monday)

Emerging Data Visualization Tools

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http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/07/technology/business-computing/07program.html?_r=1&em=&pagewanted=all

Scholarships and Grants

Scholarships for MSIM graduate students (with deadline)

Dean's Scholarship (February
http://www.ischool.washington.edu/resources/finaid/msimscholarshipapp.aspx

Ralph W. Shrader Diversity Scholarship (Feb 1
http://www.afcea.org/education/scholarships/graduate/grad2.asp

Intelligence Scholarship (Feb 1)
http://www.afcea.org/education/scholarships/undergraduate/intelligence.asp

A. R. Zipf Fellowship 2009 (Apr 6)
http://www.clir.org/fellowships/zipf/zipf.html

Xerox Technical Minority Scholarship Program
http://www.xerox.com/go/xrx/template/009.jsp?view=Feature&Xcntry=USA&Xlang=en_US&ed_name=Careers_Technical_Scholarship

Heritage Scholarships
http://www.ischool.washington.edu/resources/finaid/heritage.aspx

Hispanic Scholarship Fund (Feb 15)
http://www.hsf.net/Scholarships.aspx?id=424#grads

LULAC
http://www.lulac.org/programs/scholar.html

MS
http://www.microsoft.com/college/ss_reqs.mspx

More...

http://www.finaid.org/otheraid/minority.phtml

Source
http://www.ischool.washington.edu/resources/finaid/msim.aspx

Skills and Datawarehousing Trends

Consulting Skills > http://blogs.techrepublic.com.com/project-management/?p=280

HP Datawarehousing Project > http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/29/technology/29hewlett.html

HCD Flashback

A Software Secretary that Takes Charge > http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/14/business/14stream.html?_r=1&emc=eta1

Tidbits 3

Tech Help Review

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/25/technology/personaltech/25basics.html?em

Reboot America

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/24/opinion/24friedman.html?em