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Innovations battle natural calamities: Scientists at a meeting of the American Geophysical Union discussed ways that various technologies can be harnessed to predict and mitigate natural disasters. Among the more important projects in development are National LambdaRail Architecture's ultra-high-speed optical network and plans to enhance Google Earth with weather data and satellite imagery.Do you...; Tags: development, Google Earth, Google Inc., important project, innovations, mitigation, Mother Nature, natural disasters, programming, Sonja Thompson, technology; Discussion threads 2005-12-09

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Mobile GIS Speeds Disaster Relief: Natural disasters pose serious risk not only at initial impact but also in their aftermath. Outbreaks of disease and damage to infrastructure can quickly affect public health and the local economy. Armed with experience responding to disasters and knowledge of Geographic Information System GIS technology, the North Carolina Division of...; Tags: Mobile, Public Health, Environmental Systems Research Institute Inc., Disaster, GIS, Healthcare, Software; Case studies
Four Steps to Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity using iSCSI: It's a fact of business life -- physical, natural, and digital disasters do occur, and they interrupt operations and impact revenue. Your level of preparation and planning will determine your ability to recover from a disaster. Dramatic lessons about this topic have been learned in the past few years, yet...; Tags: iscsi, dell computer corp., disaster, business continuity, storage area networks (SAN), disaster recovery, ip storage, it services, network technology, storage, hardware, data management, networking; White papers 2005-07-01
National Warning System Facts: The National Warning System NAWAS, a major component of the Civil Defense Warning System CDWS, was established with the primary purpose of providing a capability to warn the nation of a threat of a nuclear attack. Under the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act of 1974, Public...; Tags: Disaster, Louisiana, Policies And Procedures, Aerospace & Defense, Human Resources, Manufacturing; White papers
Migrating a Local Microsoft Cluster to HP StorageWorks Cluster Extension EVA White Paper: HP StorageWorks Cluster Extension EVA CLX EVA for Windows offers a superior way of protecting the applications against major disasters by combining Windows clustering technology with storage-based replication, in this case HP StorageWorks Continuous Access EVA. With CLX EVA one can create geographically dispersed clusters - meaning clusters with nodes...; Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., HP StorageWorks, Microsoft Corp., Utility Computing, Storage, Microsoft Windows, Hardware, Operating Systems, Software; White papers 2006-05-01

Disaster City (zip): Disaster City is a game where the goal is to build a town and protect it against many disasters. If disasters strike a badly protected town, you will face problems and your reputation will fall. When your reputation bar reaches zero, you are fired. A well-planned city however, will be...; Tags: Town, Disaster, Disaster City, Games, Personal Technology; Software downloads 2006-02-07
Building Disaster Resistant Communities: Mitigation is the cornerstone of emergency management. It's the ongoing effort to lessen the impact disasters have on people and property. Mitigation involves keeping homes away from floodplains, engineering bridges to withstand earthquakes, creating and enforcing effective building codes to protect property from hurricanes - and more. Mitigation is defined...; Tags: Mitigation; White papers
Don't Get Stuck When the Lights Go Out: Plan for Disaster Recovery Now: Hurricanes, fires, floods and other natural disasters pose unique challenges to maintaining mission-critical business applications. When hurricane Katrina swept through the southeast, e-mail, data storage, networks, data centers, wireless and BlackBerry communications capabilities were all wiped out. It became nearly impossible to locate employees, recover crucial business data, to communicate...; Tags: Hurricane, XOSoft, Computer Associates International Inc., Disaster Recovery, Data Management; Webcasts
What's your disaster recovery plan?: Is your company located somewhere that is prone to natural disasters? Tell us what plans you've created to keep your IT department working.In our recent article, “Disaster recovery plans were put to the test in the Fort Worth tornado ,” we profiled two Fort Worth companies that, because of thorough...; Tags: Mike Walton, disaster recovery; Technical articles 2000-04-21
Momentum Webcast: Protecting Your HP Storage and Microsoft Exchange Server Solution From Disasters (Level 200): Natural and man-made disasters can occur when least expect them - serving as a reminder that in less than a moment's notice, volumes of data can be lost. To prevent data loss from failure, error, or disaster, Microsoft and HP offer several complementary software solutions that can help protect small...; Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Webcast, Microsoft Exchange Server, Storage, Mirroring, Server, Microsoft Corp., E-mail Servers, Groupware, Digital Media, Enterprise Software, Software, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology; Webcasts 2007-11-08
Storage Networking: An Essential Guide to Storage as a Key Component of Business Continuation: Information is a business's primary asset. Historically, data storage was a local issue, either on floppy discs or hard drives. In a data center, storage went to tape and was stored in libraries. Things are more complicated now, especially after September 11th, the natural disasters of 2005 (the Indonesian tsunami...; Tags: Storage Networking, Network, Information, Storage, Hardware; White papers 2007-06-14
Wireless Mesh Networks for Public Safety: Police, fire and rescue, and emergency medical services face a growing array of threats to public safety. Traditional disaster threats like extreme weather (e.g., hurricanes, blizzards), natural disasters (e.g., earthquakes, epidemics), and manmade disasters (e.g., transportation mishaps, hazardous material spills) have been joined by new threats (e.g., terrorist attacks). Street-level,...; Tags: Network, Border Security, BelAir Networks, Wireless, Transportation, Mesh Networking, Corporate Insurance, Networking, Business Operations; White papers 2007-03-02
American McGee Presents: Bad Day L.A. demo (exe): Bad Day L.A. injects a high dose of hilarious comedy into a third-person action/adventure game. With gameplay so simple and fun even your grandmother could play it, Bad Day L.A. is designed for gamers of all skills levels.Players take on the role of Anthony Williams, a homeless guy who just...; Tags: Los Angeles, Aspyr Media Inc., Bad Day L.A., Games, Personal Technology; Software downloads 2006-08-17
The top 10 IT disasters of all time: There are plenty of recorded examples where faulty hardware and software have cost organizations dearly, both financially and in terms of reputation -- and resulted in some near misses for the public. This list, written by ZDNet UK's Colin Barker, describes some of the worst IT-related disasters and failures.; Tags: TechRepublic Inc., Information Technology, Disaster, Strategy, Management; Download resources 2007-11-28
Getting Started: Disaster Recovery Planning - Without Destroying Your Budget: Large and small disasters happen all the time. Events ranging from purely local disasters such as local flooding caused by a fire down the block, to a city-wide flu epidemic, or a region-wide blizzard, all have the potential to put companies out of business. In their disaster planning work with...; Tags: Disaster Recovery Planning, Disaster, Disaster Recovery, Data Management; White papers
Is Image Steganography Natural?: Steganography is the art of secret communication. Its purpose is to hide the presence of information, using for example images as covers. This paper experimentally investigates if stego-images, bearing a secret message, are statistically "Natural." For this purpose, the authors use recent results on the statistics of natural images and...; Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Steganography, Image; White papers 2004-08-10
Panic Slowly: Integrated Disaster Response and Built-In Business Continuity: Unexpected disasters threaten organizations across the globe daily. Surprisingly, many businesses are not prepared for such disasters. They lack business continuity plans which can provide both proactive and reactive strategies to minimize the impact of unforeseen setbacks.; Tags: Business Continuity, It Services; White papers 2006-09-01
Continuity of Business: Continuity Of Business COB refers to an organization's plans and procedures aimed at protecting its key assets and continuing its critical business functions in the event of threats such as natural disasters, pandemics, power outages, computer viruses, or terrorist attacks. COB has joined corporate governance and information security as factors...; Tags: SAS Institute, Continuity Of Business, Corporate Governance, Corporate Insurance, Homeland Security, Business Security, Security, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Government; White papers 2007-01-01
Westward II (exe): After the settlement of Hope River is destroyed, fleeing residents deliver news of a devastating attack by the Mad Russian. Guide three pioneers as they gather resources, overcome natural disasters and plot a course to uncover the location of the elusive Copperhead Gang. Customize your towns with more than 30...; Tags: SpinTop Games, Litigation, Business Operations; Software downloads 2008-04-25
CISA exam prep: Evaluate a business' continuity planning and ability to recover from disaster: An organization's ability to recover from natural or man-made disasters and return to normal operations is often an overlooked area of an IT audit. But the need to develop plans to deal with such disasters is critical, as is the need to test the plans to make sure they are...; Tags: Disaster, Business Continuity, Organization, It Services, Disaster Recovery, Data Management; Book chapters 2007-07-12

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