According to NOAA’s National Weather Service Climate Prediction Center, Global weather patterns are imposing a greater uncertainty in the 2011 hurricane season outlook than in recent years. Forecasters say there is a 70 percent chance of having 11-16 named storms, of which six to eight could become hurricanes, including three to five major hurricanes (Category 3, 4 or 5). To help our customers keep their systems, business processes and people in operation as they brace for the 2011 hurricane season, SunGard offers a variety of free resources from it's Hurricane Preparedness Toolkit:
SunGard White Paper: Lessons Learned from Hurricane Katrina
A well-developed, extensively tested plan for disaster recovery could have helped the businesses of the Gulf Coast region mitigate the impact of Katrina on their systems—thereby softening the overall economic blow of Hurricane Katrina. Find out how to how to maintain operations during a regional disaster in this exclusive white paper. |
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From the Front Lines: Lessons Learned During Mock Disasters
When there's a serious disaster, your incident management team needs to be called into action. They need to address all the possible impacts on your organization’s resources. The safety of your employees—and the future of your company—may be riding on it. Are you 100 percent confident in your team’s ability to address such a crisis? |
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SunGard Incident Management Checklist
While this checklist is not designed as a substitute for a comprehensive Incident Management Team Plan and does not contain recovery procedures specific to your organization, it does reveal the high level tasks that you should consider if you are in threat or response mode. A great starting point to understand the overall scope of incident management. |
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Preparing for the Worst
Right now, businesses around the world are struggling to recover from the devastation caused by both natural and manmade disasters. The idea that your company could one day find itself in the same position is hardly inconceivable. Having a detailed and organized business continuity management (BCM) strategy in place and ready to use if the need arises substantially increases the likelihood that your enterprise will be able to get back into action swiftly and efficiently after a crisis or disaster. |
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NotiFind
NotiFind, powered by Varolii®, does more than just reach the right people at the right time with critical information — it also gets responses, with advanced crisis communications technology. NotiFind’s messaging capability is able to send out thousands of voice messages (up to 800,000 30-second messages per hour) and text messages (up to 500,000 per hour) simultaneously in several different ways. |
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