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of Business Continuity
By BOB ARNOLD
At our recent conference, I was lucky to visit with so many practitioners from many areas of business conti- nuity and related fields. It is amazing how much dedication there is in the
industry by those who work in the trenches
everyday, striving to improve themselves and
their organizations.
Many of the attendees are long-time contacts, who have been in the industry since the
old days of data backup, hotsites and simple
disaster recovery. The evolution the industry
has undergone over the past few decades is
staggering. When we first hosted conferences, everything revolved around disasters
and recovery.
Some of the sessions from one of our earlier shows included “The Chicago Flood,”
“Disaster Avoidance Strategies,” “AS400
Recovery Availability,” and “Disaster
Recovery Issues for Local Area Networks.”
It’s odd to look at the old brochures now and
see what was at the forefront of the industry
at that time.
Now, the industry is so much more diversified. Yes, there are still disaster recovery
issues – and there always will be – but there’s
so much more to cover now. That’s why it is
so important that our conferences continue
to evolve, just as the industry has done. And,
that’s why many of the attendees from 20
years ago are still coming back to the shows
year after year. There is always something
new to learn, a new strategy to discover, or a
new technology to obtain.
It is vital that we continually improve
business continuity programs through testing,
industry standards, benchmarking and best
practices. I heard over and over at the show
from many individuals about the wide diver-
sity of things they cover on a daily basis in
their organizations. There is a lot to handle,
and it must be done properly if it’s going to
be effective.
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Pat Corcoran – IBM
Michael Croy – Forsythe
Jeff Dato, MBCP – Pinnacle Airlines
Edward S. Devlin, CBCP
James Hammill, CBCP – JMH Consulting Inc.
John Jackson – Fusion Risk Management
Jerry Montella – Mail-Gard
Ann Pickren – MIR3
Randy Till, MBCP – Visa
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