Micro-grids for power could stave off telco outages in disasters Jul. 23, 2008 Regional loss of phone services like that following Hurricane Katrina could be a thing of the past if telcos follow a proposed architecture of tiny grids dedicated to powering local phone networks, a University of Texas ...
Marriott takes disaster recovery, virtualization underground Jul. 11, 2008 Hurricane Katrina and the Sept. 11 attack on the World Trade Center caused scores of companies to reconsider their disaster recovery and business continuity plans, whether they were affected by those catastrophic events ...
How social networking saved New Orleans Jun. 27, 2008 If there is any doubt to the power of social media, social networking and social software, then nonbelievers may need to Think New Orleans.
Disaster recovery tips and lessons learned May. 06, 2008 In his keynote address at the recent Network World IT Roadmap event in Chicago, Marshall Lancaster, vice president of IT, Enterprise Infrastructure Services for United Stationers, offered up lots of tips and lessons ...
BellSouth to take $100 million Q3 charge on Katrina Oct. 07, 2005 BellSouth this week said it will incur a $100 million asset impairment charge in the third quarter due to damage caused by Hurricane Katrina.
Data center nearly restored for New Orleans schools Dec. 19, 2007 It has been near 28 months since Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans. Peggy Abadie, executive director of IT and head of the nine-member IT team in the New Orleans Public Schools (NOPS) are still living through the ...
Brothers who ran Hurricane Katrina donation scam sentenced Dec. 03, 2007 Two brothers convicted of running a phony Salvation Army Web site that purportedly raised money for Hurricane Katrina victims were both sentenced to more than 100 months in jail.
Microsoft offers a year of free software to Louisiana SMBs Aug. 27, 2007 Microsoft is working with state officials in Louisiana to offer Windows and Office software free for a year to small businesses still feeling the effects of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita.
PCI compliance tops Humane Society CIO’s agenda Apr. 06, 2007 When Beverly Magda became CIO of the Humane Society of the United States in July 2005, her first goal was clear: Comply with the Payment Card Industry data security standard that had just been implemented.
CTO: BellSouth lost 9 COs to Katrina Oct. 25, 2005 Hurricane Katrina destroyed nine BellSouth central offices in the Gulf Coast region, BellSouth's CTO said this week.
Allstate uses VoIP to help with hurricane response Oct. 07, 2005 VoIP technology helped Allstate Insurance weather hurricanes Rita and Katrina in the Gulf Coast region, enabling quick setup of two offices for displaced agents and claims adjusters who took calls from storm victims, ...
Former FCC chairman puts safety challenge to industry Oct. 05, 2005 At last week's CTIA show, Reed Hundt, a senior advisor at management consulting company McKinsey & Co. and a former FCC chairman, threw down a challenge to the participating infrastructure providers: Figure out a way in ...
Katrina and communications: Waters of mass destruction Oct. 03, 2005 Now is the time for those involved in networking to come to the aid of the people and infrastructure of the Gulf Coast. A strong government-industry partnership is a great step toward this objective, and the FCC is to ...
Katrina shows why a national registry is sorely needed Oct. 03, 2005 I ended the last issue by saying that had the U.S. Real ID Act been in effect prior to this year, lives could have been saved and suffering could have been averted. Here's how.
How IT managers prepped their servers for Hurricane Rita Sep. 29, 2005 With Hurricane Rita only a harrowing memory for IT managers in Texas last week, their mantra for protecting servers, if they didn't have server replication in place, was largely “back up their data, take them down, ...
LAMP/Asterisk-powered voicemail keeps Katrina victims in touch Sep. 28, 2005 Linux, Apache Web server, MySQL and PHP - the widely used LAMP platform - are key parts in a recently-built voicemail system that is helping displaced residents of the Gulf Coast keep in touch with family and friends ...
Fight Katrina frauds Sep. 27, 2005 Depravity knows no bounds. Millions of donors had contributed more than $600 million by Sept. 16 to help the victims of Hurricane Katrina, according to news wire reports; however, the FBI also reported that thousands of ...
IT prepared for Hurricane Rita Sep. 23, 2005 "The information technologies' help desk is currently closed due to weather conditions caused by Hurricane Rita, and the University of Houston Downtown has decided to close the university."
VON: Katrina, user rights take center stage Sep. 21, 2005 The role of the telecommunications industry as part of disaster response and recovery was a focus of the Voice on the Net, or VON, conference in Boston this week, where speakers and participants also touched on the ...
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