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Photos: Engineering lessons learned from Katrina
Princeton study finds surprising similarities between Hurricane Katrina and 2004 tsunami.
Tags: Hurricane Katrina, photograph
Image galleries 2007-05-12
Online scams emerge in Katrina's wake
To the IT community, this is no surprise. Usually extreme disasters are followed by online scams. One Katrina spam campaign tricks people into clicking a link for breaking news reports, but they actually go to a bogus Web site, where malicious code is installed on their computers. Other bogus e-mails...
Tags: disaster relief, Katrina, online scam, Red Cross, scams, security, Sonja Thompson
Discussion threads 2005-09-02
University of New Orleans Enhances Recruiting to Rebuild the Student Population After Hurricane Katrina
The University of New Orleans wanted to increase enrollment after a severe drop following Hurricane Katrina while also dealing with employee shortages and recruit and retain students in a highly competitive market. The challenge was to make it easier for students to evaluate the university and apply and track the...
Tags: Marketing, Oracle Corp., Recruiting, Hurricane Katrina, Recruitment & Selection, Human Resources, Workforce Management
Case studies 2009-02-01
IBM and Pragmatix Put Technology Infrastructure Out of Harm's Way for Financial Services Company
Pragmatix, Inc., an IBM Business Partner based in Elmsford, New York, immediately understood what worried the managers of Commonwealth Advisors, Inc., after Hurricane Katrina wreaked havoc in Commonwealth's home state of Louisiana in 2005. Hurricane Katrina put a financial advisory firm in Louisiana on notice that it needed a more...
Tags: Financial, Financial Service, Hurricane Katrina, IBM Corp., Louisiana, Financial Planning, Finance
Case studies 2007-05-01
A Contact Center Solution From Avaya Keeps Power Customers in Touch, in Spite of Hurricane Katrina
Responsible for generating and delivering electric power to 2.7 million customers in Southeast Texas and most of Mississippi, Arkansas and Louisiana, including New Orleans. The challenge was to enable six geographically-separate call centers to operate as an integrated multimedia contact center and strengthen management's ability to adjust operations as demands...
Tags: Contact Center, Avaya Inc., Hurricane Katrina, Call Centers, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Telecommunications, It Operations, Enterprise Software, Software
Case studies
Adams and Reese Ensures Communications With Dispersed Employees and Clients After Hurricane Katrina With Help From Dell
Adams and Reese needed a way to communicate with employees and clients in the event of a disaster in order to secure employee safety and conduct business when email and BlackBerry service were down. The law firm planned for and implemented a solution for email continuity by contracting a service...
Tags: Dell Computer Corp., Hurricane Katrina, E-mail, Online Communications
Case studies 2009-03-01
Real World Disaster Recovery: A disaster like Hurricane Katrina raises important IT questions
From the article in IBM Systems Magazine: "Disaster recovery (D/R) planning and testing has been a large part of my career. I've been involved in D/R exercises for a variety of customers, and I was also peripherally involved on a D/R event that happened after Hurricane Katrina. There's a big...
Tags: Event, Information Technology, Hurricane Katrina, IBM Corp., D/R, Disaster Recovery, Data Centers, Data Management, Storage, Hardware
White papers 2006-07-01
Disaster Recovery for the Real World: Surviving Hurricane Katrina
Are you still relying on tape backups for disaster recovery? Tape backups are important, but when a disaster strikes, you may find that you shouldn't rely on tapes as your only layer of protection. Listen to this TechRepublic Webcast, now available on demand, to hear Peter...
Tags: Tape Backup, XOSoft, Computer Associates International Inc., Hurricane Katrina, Disaster Recovery, Backups, Data Management
Webcasts 2006-08-22
Serenity Countdown 256.0.0.63.25d (Windows)
This is a countdown Widget that accepts a user defined date and then, um, counts down to that date. Currently set by default to celebrate the up-coming international "Serenity Day" on June 23, 2006, it displays Misbehavin on Serenity Day in:" and then the days, hours, minutes and seconds remaining...
Tags: Hurricane Katrina, Microsoft Windows, DVD, Consumer Electronics, Operating Systems, Software, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment
Software downloads 2007-07-10
Sprint Helps WOAI-TV News Team Survive Hurricane Katrina, Share Their Stories
In order for News 4 WOAI-TV in San Antonio to provide viewers with accurate, timely information, the station must maintain contact with numerous highly mobile professionals who go wherever a story demands. When a natural disaster strikes, as when Hurricanes Katrina and Rita devastated the Gulf Coast region in 2005,...
Tags: Team, Sprint Communications, Hurricane Katrina, Advertising & Promotion, Handhelds, Marketing, Hardware
Case studies 2007-08-21

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TR's Hot Topics: Katrina, Tech Q&A preview, the 'entry level' lie
TECHREPUBLIC COMMUNITY NETNOTE NEWSLETTER for September 6, 2005TR'S HOT TOPICS: KATRINA, TECH Q&A PREVIEW, THE 'ENTRY LEVEL' LIE, AND LAPTOP DEATH The much-anticipated Technical Q&A revamp is underway, and as a surprise preview, we're resurfacing an interim version of the long-lost ALL OPEN QUESTIONS filter for Tech Q&A. This...
Tags: career, community netnote, feedback, government, http://techrepublic.com.com/5208-11184-0.html?forumID=47&threadI, Katrina, laptop computer, laptops, Tech, Tech Q&a, technical q and a, The Trivia Geek
Discussion threads 2005-09-02
Webcast: Step-by-Step Disaster Recovery Planning for the 2006 Hurricane Season
The 2005 hurricane season went down as the worst on record, with damages estimated at over $100 billion.* Forecasters are already predicting a similarly severe 2006 storm season, so it's imperative that companies with offices in vulnerable areas ensure that their applications and data are fully protected—well in advance...
Tags: Webcast, Hurricane, XOSoft, Litigation, Business Operations
Webcasts 2006-04-05
University of New Orleans Rapidly Recovers IT Infrastructure and Processes Payroll After Hurricane
The University of New Orleans, often called UNO, is a medium-sized public urban university located in New Orleans, Louisiana. The university wanted to rapidly restore their database and core financial, human resources, and student administration systems following Hurricane Katrina. UNO wanted to provide the technology infrastructure required to enable the...
Tags: IT Infrastructure, Oracle Corp., Information Technology, University, Payroll, Financial Management, Payroll Solutions, Operational Accounting, Financial Accounting, Databases, Financial Planning, Finance, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management
Case studies
Katrina - One Year Later
This is a personal entry and has absolutely no Oracle,database or other technical content. This is more of a mind dump aboutKatrina and life in general. If you don't care to read about Katrina ormy life, please don't read this. This entry is one of my few ramblingrants and it's...
Tags: Databases, Katrina
Blog posts 2006-09-22
Verizon Business Helps Federal Agency Secure Disaster Areas
At 6:10 on the morning of August 29, 2005, the third-strongest hurricane in U.S. history hit the Gulf Coast. New Orleans took the brunt of Hurricane Katrina's colossal force, as 125 m.p.h. winds and a 25-foot storm surge breached 53 levees and submerged 80 percent of the city. The government...
Tags: Agency, Verizon Communications Inc., Advertising & Promotion, Government, Marketing
Case studies 2008-05-13
Deb Shinder's Tech Blog
blog rootWelcome to my BlogI have been writing articles for TechProGuild and TechRepublic for over five years now, specializing primarily in Microsoft operating systems and application software as well as generic networking and security concepts and practices. I've authored two sole-author books (Scene of the Cybercrime, published by Syngress and...
Tags: Backups, Servers, Deb Shinder, deb@..., server, backup, disaster recovery, security, blog
Discussion threads 2005-06-22
Microsoft Online Services Customer Story: British Petroleum
For BP, time was of the essence in ensuring the safety of its facilities and 1,500 employees in its Gulf of Mexico Strategic Performance Unit. It is responsible for a complex mix of assets that includes eight deep-water oil production and drilling platforms that feed thousands of miles of pipelines...
Tags: BP Plc, Microsoft Corp., Network Technology, Networking
Case studies 2007-11-14
Should blogging be a corporate mandate?
TECHREPUBLIC BLOG ROUNDUP NEWSLETTER for September 7, 2005SHOULD BLOGGING BE A CORPORATE MANDATE? A recent TechRepublic download, "Corporate blogging gives you a competitive advantage that cannot be ignored," provides the findings of the 2005 BackBoneMedia survey. The results "reveal that corporate blogs are giving corporations and obscure brands the...
Tags: beth.blakely@..., blog, blog roundup newsletter, blogging, blogs, feedback, http://techrepublic.com.com/5254-6257-0.html?forumID=99&threadID, site improvements, WEEK'S BLOG ROUNDUP HIGHLIGHTS TR
Discussion threads 2005-09-06
Katrina - reprise - three questions
Katrina - reprise - three questionsOK before the two questions. I just finished watching a Discovery Channel special on Katrina. It mostly dealt with the problems at the Super Dome and the Convention Centre, and the delays in relief support. I got the impression that many people saw the problem...
Tags: government, Katrina, bureaucracy, emergency, Deadly Ernest, off-topic, Tracey
Discussion threads 2006-08-20
Louisiana Leaders - The epitome of incompetence and corruption
Louisiana Leaders - The epitome of incompetence and corruption.http://www.opinionjournal.com/extra/?id=110007219http://tiadaily.com/php-bin/news/showArticle.php?id=1026http://www.bestofneworleans.com/dispatch/2005-08-16/commentary.phphttp://jeffblanco.blogdrive.com/http://louminatti.blogspot.com/2005/09/there-was-no-money-to-improve-new.htmlhttp://www.buffalonews.com/editorial/20050904/1066662.asphttp://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/sunday/commentary/la-oe-metzgar4sep04,0,710998.story?coll=la-sunday-commentaryhttp://newsmax.com/archives/ic/2005/9/5/234033.shtmlhttp://archives.cnn.com/2001/LAW/01/09/edwards.sentenced/http://mensnewsdaily.com/blog/malven/2005/09/hurricane-katrina-dont-blame-bush-for.htmlYou touched on what's important.You said, "If there is anything that really jumps out at me it is this - how prepared am I personally to deal with a storm or catastrophe like that."That's the key. Everyone should assume that they're on...
Tags: catastrophe
Discussion threads 2005-09-07
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