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RSS katrinaGoogle snaps up aerial photographer
News ImageAmerica supplied Google Earth with high-resolution aerial photos of New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina struck in 2005. Google has acquired ImageAmerica, a company that builds high-resolution cameras and uses them... [23 Jul 2007]
Preparing For Emergencies: Secure Remote Working For Continuity Of Operations
White Paper Using real-world examples - such as a field hospital set-up outside New Orleans for victims of Hurricane Katrina - we'll address technical requirements for implementing a disaster-ready remote access solution. [06 Jul 2007]
A Contact Center Solution From Avaya Keeps Power Customers in Touch, in Spite of Hurricane Katrina
White Paper 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... [18 Apr 2007]
Photos of the month - November 2006
Photo Other stunning images include Hurricane Katrina and the oil depot explosion at Buncefield. Silverstone Grand Prix circuit in Northamptonshire, UK as seen from Google Earth.silicon.com chose its favourite Google Earth... [27 Nov 2006]
Photos: Google Earth showcases natural disasters
Photo Above is the daunting sight of Hurricane Katrina, as seen by ESA's Envisat satellite, off southern Florida, when it was category one on the Saffir-Simpson scale measuring hurricane intensity on 25 August 2005. [17 Nov 2006]
University of New Orleans Rapidly Recovers IT Infrastructure and Processes Payroll After Hurricane
White Paper The university wanted to rapidly restore their database and core financial, human resources, and student administration systems following Hurricane Katrina. The University of New Orleans, often called UNO, is a... [06 Oct 2006]
Panel Discussion: Back From the Brink - Lessons Learned on the Front Lines of Disaster
White Paper Hurricane Katrina devastated the Gulf Coast. Less than a month later, Hurricane Rita hit, then Hurricane Wilma. Flood waters ravaged data centers, employees went missing, entire communities were evacuated. [18 Aug 2006]
Disaster Recovery: Ensuring Business Continuity
White Paper In this archived 60-minute webcast, the listener will learn how companies impacted by Hurricanes Katrina and Wilma were able to provide business continuity to their users through centralized application management. [18 Aug 2006]
Disaster Recovery Planning for the Developer, Part 2
White Paper In 2005, Hurricane Katrina bought home the reality of disaster recovery, or more precisely, what happens when one doesn't prepare. This paper takes disaster recovery planning to the next level - it discusses the Business... [18 Aug 2006]
Disaster Recovery: Are You Prepared?
White Paper Scores of IT infrastructure professionals have been working night and day to recover data centers that were either devastated or put out of service due to Hurricane Katrina. The lucky ones, which were prepared for such a... [18 Aug 2006]
Safe in the Eye of the Storm
White Paper Spurred on by their Katrina experiences or those of some of their closest business partners, they are taking steps to safeguard their staff, hardware and data. Hurricane season officially begins June 1. [18 Aug 2006]
Hardware Today: Natural Disaster Survival Guide
White Paper The not-so-smart, however, simply headed north, hoping Hurricanes Katrina and Rita would be gentle on the hardware they abandoned. It is doubtful many of the vehicles in the record-breaking traffic streaming out of New... [18 Aug 2006]
After Katrina... Remapping Disaster Plan
White Paper The multi-state path of destruction of hurricanes Rita and Katrina has turned that rule on its head, forcing many IT managers to rethink their disaster recovery plans. In IT, there was an accepted rule of thumb that... [09 Aug 2006]
Disaster Recovery Sites: How Far Away Is Far Enough?
White Paper New Orleans domain name and hosting provider Directnic.com adopted an interesting strategy during Hurricanes Katrina and Rita - dig in and grind it out. Situated in a high rise in the central business district, IT staff... [09 Aug 2006]
2005: The Year in Enterprise Security
White Paper But Hurricane Katrina highlighted many of the flaws in existing disaster recovery and business continuity plans. One would have thought that after 9/11 companies would have realized the importance of using things like... [09 Aug 2006]
