Off to LA
Tomorrow, before most folks are awake I suspect, I will be jetting from the Sunshine State to LAX for the final installment — this year and perhaps for some time to follow — of the Data Management Institute’s Disaster Recovery training seminar. However things turn out, I have enjoyed working with the team from TechTarget and thank the many sponsors who have made this event free for all attendees. By my count, we certified another thousand or so delegates this year through this outreach.
I am increasingly concerned about DR preparedness in companies in the USA. I am hearing a lot of war stories about entire staff for continuity planning being downsized and their tasks assigned to other personnel — who are already doing the work once performed by now non-existant folks who used to live in adjacent cubicles. Testing has also fallen by the boards in many firms and an untested plan has no efficacy.
I am busily developing chapters for Disaster Recovery Planning 4th Edition that will shortly be published at a “blook” microsite slung off of my DRPLANNING.ORG site [book.drplanning.org]. When I am back from LA, I can hopefully post the first several chapters quickly.
The week after this one, I will travel West again for the final Storage Decisions of the year in San Francisco, then jetting up to the Supercomputer Show in Portland. I have a few more things to do over the last month of 2009, but none require extensive travel.
Hope to spend the balance of the year finishing up some projects, but stand by for a Wave 2 set of videos on C4Project.org that will include TAMP Systems, Tek-Tools, Spectra Logic, Virtual Instruments, ASCDI, and maybe FujiFilm. More on this in a week or so.
Tags: ASCDI, DMI, DR, FujiFilm, Spectra Logic, Storage Decisions, TAMP Systems, Tech Target, Tek-Tools, Virtual Instruments