Senate hearing details close up (ID: 42528)
Washington, DC, June 5, 2008 — Notes, hands and water. Close up of minor details at a Senate hearing of FEMA officials. FEMA/Bill Koplitz
Region IX Administrator Visits Amanave Village in American Samoa (ID: 42520)
Amanave, AS, November 13, 2009 — Nancy Ward, administrator of FEMA Region IX, and Kenneth R. Tingman, FEMA s federal coordinating officer in American Samoa, listen as Tusipasi Suiaunda, chief protocol officer for the governor s office, describes the damage and recovery in the village of Amanave. Many homes were destroyed by the tsunami of September 29, 2009, but no lives were lost. Richard O Reilly/FEMA.
Google flops on its conversion to IPv6 from IPv4
Google flops on its conversion to IPv6 from IPv4. Widespread outages involving several Google services–including search, Google Docs, and Gmail–were caused by an upgrade gone awry inside of Google, according McAfee. The outage began at 8:13 a.m. PDT, according to McAfee’s data, and was fixed by 9:14 a.m. PDT. A senior manager at McAfee said that Google attempted to make changes to key Internet routing numbers–known as autonomous system numbers–as part of its ongoing transition from an older networking standard (IPv4) to a newer one called IPv6. An unknown “bug” inside Google’s network prevented Internet service providers from finding Google’s new ASNs on the Internet–effectively blocking its services. Not all Internet users were affected, but some that use larger providers–such as AT&T or Verizon–appeared to be disproportionately hurt because large ISPs “peer” with Google, or interconnect their networks with Google’s networks in order to improve speed and reduce bandwidth costs. Not all customers at those providers were affected, and smaller ISPs that did not interconnect their networks were able to route around the problem.
Defining a Functional Disaster Recovery Business Continuity Plan
What makes a truly functional disaster recovery business continuity solution is the ability to restore full systems and enterprise operations quickly, in a matter of hours or even minutes, using available computing resources, which may be local, but may also be remote. True disaster recovery and business continuity plans must allow for recovery from site-wide disasters, such as a hurricane. The primary site may be completely down, due to a lack of power and network connectivity. The secondary site located in a non-affected area would be used to restore services until the primary site comes back online. Many enterprises opt for remote Disaster Recovery Business Continuity site(s) for such scenarios. Many system administrators opt for virtual servers, which use asynchronous replication to replicate both the data and virtual machines to the secondary site, which has several standby servers. That way if they need to activate the secondary site, they just direct the activity to the virtual machines and all the systems are back up and running with the latest data.
UK Pandemic system for disaster fails
The UK Government has rolled out the National Pandemic Flu Service in England today. Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales have decided to opt out of the service as demands in numbers are significantly less than that of England. According to the BBC, the UK may have over 100,000 cases of H1N1 infection along with roughly 30 deaths as a result. The US is reported to have 40,000 cases with over 250 deaths. But because the flu pandemic has spread so far and wide, it is difficult to determine whether someone s death is a direct result from swine flu, or whether the figures and statistics are accurate. There are simply too many cases and not enough resources being spent on data collection; some would say at least governments have their priorities right. The National Pandemic Flu Service will be primarily a web based service, alongside a call center which will not be operated by health staff or qualified professionals to allow an “ease of burden on the NHS”. It will act as a checklist service that algorithmically determines whether your symptoms are severe enough to require Tamiflu, the main anti-viral drug used to combat the illness.
Credit Card Processor Disaster
Talk about a serious outage. Payment gateway service provider Authorize.net was down several hours. The service is used by tens of thousands of e-commerce vendors to accept credit card and electronic checks payments on their websites. A fire in Seattle s Fisher Plaza appears to be the reason what has taken down Authorize.net. With its website down, Authorize has set up a new Twitter account to provide updates and address the many customer complaints and questions. On July 2nd at approximately 11:10 pm, an incident in a garage-level electrical room disrupted power to Fisher Plaza East and knocked out the facility’s backup generation system. The electrical room is where Fisher Plaza East receives its power from Seattle City Light. One of the services affected was Authorize.net, the largest credit card and e-check payment processor in the world, with tens of thousands of partners and processing millions of transactions on a daily basis. Authorize.net set up a Twitter account to keep its customers informed and transaction processing has been restored with a backup data center. ARB transactions will be rerun over the weekend thought there are still issues with CIM, VPOS and api.authorize.net.
Disaster Recovery Planning International Standard Set by Janco
Disaster Recovery Business Continuity Template Now Accepted as the International Standard Update to the Disaster Recovery Business Continuity Template has just been released by Janco Associates.. Park City, UT - The Disaster Recovery Business Continuity Planning template has been sold to enterprise in over 65 countries around the globe. With the release the latest verison of the template it is in complete compliance with Sarbanes-Oxley, HIPAA, ITIL (Ver 3), ISO 17799, and PCI DSS.M V Janulaitis the CEO of Janco said, “Our DRP /BCP Template has been accepted by enterprise around the globe as the standard for disaster recovery plan and business continuity plan creation.” In response to that need Janco has updated its “Disaster Recovery / Business Continuity Template” by increasing the content of the template as well as updating the entire document to be compliant with Sarbanes-Oxley, HIPAA, ITIL (Ver. 3), ISO 17799, and PCI DSS. The Disaster Recovery Business Continuity Plan has been purchased for use in over 65 countries around the globe including: Angola Australia Austria Bahamas Barbados Belgium Belize Bermuda Brazil Bulgaria Canada Cayman Islands Columbia Croatia Czech Republic Denmark Egypt Finland France Germany Greece Honduras Hungary Iceland India Indonesia Israel Italy Jamaica Japan Jordan Kenya Lebanon Lithuania Macao Malta Mexico Mozambique Namibia Netherlands New Zealand Nigeria Norway Panama Philippines Poland Portugal Puerto Rico Qatar Republic of Ireland Romania Russia Saudi Arabia Singapore South Africa South Korea Spain Sri Lanka Swaziland Switzerland Taiwan Thailand Trinidad & Tobago Uganda United Kingdom United States Venezuela Zambia The Disaster Recovery Business Continuity Plan has been purchased for use in government, public, and private enterprises in almost all industries including: Federal Government State Governments Local Governments Law Firms Think Tanks Chemical Telecommunication Real Estate Manufacturing Universities School Districts Consulting Firms Banks Financial Service Investment Banks Credit Unions Outsourcers Property Mgt Heavy Industry Light Industry Distribution Retail Hospitality Energy Insurance Medical ISPs Application Development Construction Graphics Entertainment Paper Products Defense Aerospace Media
