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Quote
of the
Month
Fatherhood is pretending the present you
love most
is soap-on-a-rope.
-- Bill Cosby
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Will You Miss Your
Data?
Clearly the discussion of losing your data, whether
business or personal is something most don’t want to
really think about. In fact it usually takes a loss
at some level to get ones attention to have a short
discussion of how to protect against it.
Just like life insurance, selling backup solutions
is not easy. Scaring one to think their entire world
will disappear due to missing or poorly configured backup
systems is just a cruel sales approach. So, we at LMS
have taken the high road and will not use such tactics.
We will just state the obvious things we have learned
in the past 29 years of supporting networks.
 YOU
WILL SUFFER A CATASTROPHIC LOSS OF DATA. YOUR SYSTEMS
WILL BE SHUT DOWN DUE TO LOSS OF POWER, FLOODING, VIRUS
INFECTIONS AND INTERNAL SABOTAGE. THE OUTAGES WILL PROBABLY
COST YOU MANY YEARS OF LOST WAGES AND POSSIBLY CRIPPLE
YOUR BUSINESS OR CAREERS. IT WILL HAPPEN WHEN YOU CAN
LEAST AFFORD IT AND WHEN YOU HAVE THE LEAST AMOUNT OF
TIME TO DEAL WITH IT.
EVERYONE AROUND YOU WHO TOLD YOU IT COULD NOT HAPPEN
WILL DISAPPEAR OR CLAIM THEY NEVER SAID IT. EVERYONE
WILL BE HAPPY TO HELP YOU REBUILD YOUR SYSTEMS AND BUSINESSES
FOR A FEE.
Of course we told you we wouldn’t scare you so just
consider that what was stated will happen to somebody
else and you are forever safe. Now that we have solved
the age old problem of what could happen to somebody
else, let me wish you a happy and relaxing summer. Be
glad that bad things only happen to other people.
- Larry
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Business Interruption
Planning Not Just for Big Business:
10 misconceptions about disaster recovery
 Paul
Sullivan has seen it all. A 25-year veteran of disaster recovery
and business continuity management, Sullivan witnessed the
growth of continuity planning among the Fortune 1000 in the
1980s. He watched, first hand, the successes and failures
of business continuity plans following the events of September
11, 2001 and in 2005 throughout the most active hurricane
season in recorded history. Today, Sullivan is helping small
and medium-sized companies plan for and recover after significant
business interruptions.
“Continuity planning
has always been associated with big business,” said Sullivan,
Vice President and General Manager, Agility Recovery Solutions.
“We’re using the same knowledge, strategies and tactics we
developed with the Fortune 1000 and implementing them among
small and medium-sized businesses across North America.”
Agility Recovery
Solutions, a former division of General Electric, focuses
planning and recovery efforts on small and medium-sized businesses,
though the company continues to do work with giants such as
IBM and HP.
Why
Business Continuity? Why now?
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Declare War
on Paper
by Jane Cage, COO, HTS
 Here
at the office I refer to myself as the “Anti-Paper” . . .
It drives me crazy when I see the amount of information everyone
sends to the printer when that same information is available
on the screen. While being “green” seems to be the issue of
the day, it seems like the right time to talk about the vast
number of trees we kill each year because we can’t get past
the perception that we have to hold paper in our hand to be
certain an item is real – or on the chance we will ever need
it again.
There are three
problems with relying on paper. First, there is no fault tolerance
for paper, except another piece of paper – ironic, isn’t it?
Second – paper can only be in one physical location. Both
of us can’t look at the client invoice at the same time. How
many times have you looked for information to find out it
was on someone else's desk? Third – paper can only be filed
one way, and therefore only retrieved in the way it was filed.
That kind of limitation has real effects on how well a company
can function – should invoices be filed by number or by client?
Should they be filed by date for easier removal to an off-site
location?
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Will You
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