How important is Risk Management in Project Management? Military campaigns meet the Project Management Institute’s (PMI) definition for projects. They are meant to be temporary endeavors undertaken to create specific results. Generals, Admirals, and other officers are Project Managers, albeit with other titles. Colossal failures throughout history, including Napoleon’s invasionRead More

In 2010, we presented a plan to a law firm to expand its Backup and Disaster Recovery system (DR) into a Business Continuity system (BC). Disaster Recovery enables a business to resume operations after a disaster concludes; Business Continuity allows the business to operate during and after the disaster. TheRead More

Anatomy of Disaster Recovery Jersey City, November, 2001. It could have been yesterday. I was working for Credit Suisse. “You’re a DBA. A database system is down. Go fix it.” said my boss. On site, I replaced the failed drives – there were two – reconfigured the systems, reloaded fromRead More