We recently published 3 podcasts on Business Disruptions and how you can use WebEx as the telework part of your business continuity plan. Your browser does not support JavaScript. This media can be viewed at http://www.podtech.net/home/4365/business-disruptions-part-1   Your browser does not support JavaScript. This media can be viewed at http://www.podtech.net/home/4417/business-disruptions-part-3 Your browser does not support JavaScript. This medi ...     Read entire post

New York City is bracing for a 48-hour taxi strike due start on Wednesday Sept 5 at 5:00 AM.  Earlier today; Mayor Bloomberg announced a taxi strike contingency plan.  This contingency plan is focused on allow people to share rides in those taxis that are operating and is urging commuters to use public transport as much as possible.  One other way of avoiding commuter woes would be to work from home and telecommute during the next two days.  Just like during the most recent ...     Read entire post

There are 2 big parts in business continuity and disaster recovery.  The first one is the recovery of your systems and services.  The second one is re-establishing lines of communications for your employees so that they can communicate and collaborate between each other and with customers, partners and vendors.   The WebEx Solutions for Business Continuity do the latter.  In business continuity speak; this is called “work area recovery”. We believe that the ...     Read entire post

Guess where I was on Wednesday July 18, 2007 at 6:00 PM.... I just came out of the Bryant Park and 42nd Street subway exit in Manhattan and I look to my right and see a sea of people running towards me and away from the Grand Central Station area.  Behind them was a large white smoke cloud.  The pictures here and here give you some idea what it was about.  This is not from the same vantage point I was at though.  What I did see where many people who were covered in mud ...     Read entire post

So, let’s go back to that mountain I talked about in my previous posting.  . Is it really that difficult and expensive to climb?  It totally depends on how you look at it.  There are 28,000 companies worldwide and 2,200,000 end users inside these companies that already have the solution at their fingertips (even though some of them may not know it). Their secret? They are WebEx customers. By using on-demand collaborations services regularly in their busi ...     Read entire post

“It is estimated that a majority of companies could only withstand 2 hours of down time without their business being affected.” CIO Magazine.  “93% of businesses that suffer a downtime of over 10 days, will file for bankruptcy within one year” National Archives and Records Administration. “18 percent of enterprises, 31 percent of small businesses have no business continuity plan” GCR Custom Research These are pretty bad numbers… So y ...     Read entire post