NOTICE: All attendees who have successfully RSVP'd by 15-JAN-2003 16:00 should have already received an "RSVP-ACK" EMail. If you did NOT receive this email, you are probably NOT registered and you won't be able to get past security. The final list has now been sent into Chase.
Introduction
First off... Happy New Year!
That being said, its that time again... its time for the annual election of the Unigroup Board of Directors... and the annual call for Unigroup members (or other volunteers) who would like to serve on the board (or simply help the board) and take care of Unigroup.
Unigroup members are welcome to volunteer to serve on the Board
of Directors of Unigroup of New York, Inc. Please Email the
board at
Now, back on topic... particularly this month's meeting topic...
IT Disaster Recovery. Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity
have always been important topics, but they have taken on new
meaning given the catastrophic events of recent years (eg.
wide-scale power disruptions, floods, earthquakes, tornados,
hurricanes and terror).
I spoke with our speaker at length last week. To summarize,
all I can say is that I expect that most people in attendance
will leave the meeting saying "Wow, Fantastic Meeting!"
You can easily see from the meeting outline and from our
speaker's biography, that we are in for a real "master class"
session. This meeting will address the issues of Disaster
Planning and Prevention (from a Technical and Business Impact
point of view), as well as the various issues related to
Business Continuity and Post-Disaster Recovery.
Unigroup would like to especially thank our speaker for flying
in for this meeting. Unigroup appreciates HP's continued
support.
Directions
The 1CMP building is situated: South of Liberty Street, North of
Pine Street, East of Broad/Nassau Street and West of William Street.
The building is one block east of Broadway, right behind 140 Broadway.
The closest entrance to the conference center is from Nassau Street,
first elevator bank from the Nassau Street entrance.
The building is on a raised platform. Walk up the outside stairs at
Nassau Street and head for the guard's station at the south-west
corner of the building. Tell the guards you are heading for Unigroup.
They will inspect your ID and carry-ins and direct you to the meeting
facility, assuming you are on the Unigroup RSVP list.
Once you get upstairs, enter the conference facility through its main
doors. There is a bank of large monitors to the left of the entrance
which should direct you to the Unigroup meeting room (the room may
vary from month to month). To the right of the main entrance is the
concierge's desk, ask for help there if you need anything. The
conference facility has two levels, keep in mind that the Unigroup
meeting may be up the staircase on its upper level.
As always, also look out for Unigroup signs marking the path to the
meeting room. Also note, if you come early, we may not have
our own signs in place yet (we have to commute there too).
Transit By Train:
Take the J/M/Z to Broad Street and walk 1 block North to Pine St.
Take the 4/5 to Wall Street and walk North to Pine St., then East to Broad St.
Take the 2/3 to Wall Street, the North West exit is inside
the Chase complex, else you will need to walk a block North and West.
See MTA Downtown NYC Map (pdf) for detailed mass transit information.
Description of Talk
No matter how big or how small your business may be, it is critical
to understand the steps on how to:
In this presentation we will discuss why 60% of all businesses
fail to meet their Recovery Time Objective (RTO) and Recovery Point
Objective (RPO) because of missed steps or lack of ownership while
responding to an outage. How do we determine what level of an
event has occurred and who takes ownership of declaring a disaster?
How do you invoke the right relay teams necessary to recover
critical components before loss occurs to your reputation and
revenue? We will answer these questions, plus address additional
questions that deal directly with responding and escalating during
an unplanned outage.
Once your relay teams are in place, how do you recover?
These and many more questions are essential for identifying the
correct recovery methods and steps to recover your critical
components during a declared disaster. We will discuss how to get
the right level of recovery plan in place for your critical IT
components. We will address:
Once we address response and recovery, we will briefly discuss the
necessity of restoring your production site and resumption steps
that migrate you back to your restored production site from your
alternate processing or recovery site.
So, with all said and done, what can really happen that would
cause an outage resulting in a declared disaster? We will discuss
events of the last 10 years and explore declared disasters with
both successful recovery and not so successful recovery. We will
share war stories and have an open discussion on issues today.
We will discuss what we learned from September 11th that has
driven changes in our recovery strategies.
Web Resources:
Giveaways:
To-Be-Announced (HP is investigating what they can put together).
Speaker Biography
Sharon M. Williams, Continuity Solution Engineer
Sharon is an experienced leader in Business Continuity practices
across the United States since 1978. She has extensive experience
in all aspects of recovery that include risk assessment, business
impact analysis, strategy development, crisis management, disaster
recovery planning, and business continuity planning. Her major
focus over the last 15 years has been IT Continuity Planning and
paying special attention to the never-ending changes in IT
infrastructures and components. She draws on more than 25 years
of Information Technology related experience to support clients
of various major businesses.
As a Continuity Solution Engineer for Hewlett-Packard, she is
responsible for ensuring customer recovery plans and recovery
components are invoke-able. She specializes in IT continuity
and rehearsal management, focusing on IT staff processes and the
steps necessary to recover within the correct recovery time
objective for each critical IT component.
Over the years, Sharon has assisted many businesses and
organizations in North America, Asia/Pacific Rim and Europe in
understanding business continuity concepts. These concepts
include risks and threats, determining recovery and continuity
strategies, and developing plans to anticipate any outage that
would impact the businesses reputation and revenue. She has
managed over 100 recoveries due to major and catastrophic outages
for North American clients.
Her IT recovery experience includes network recovery, various
system platforms such as IBM, Unix, MPE, NT etc., critical IT
infrastructure components such as print servers and batch servers
along with applications and database recovery, including SAP,
Oracle, Informix, etc.
Company Biography
The "New" HP. See www.hp.com for information about HP.
Fee Schedule
Food and Refreshments
Complimentary Food and Refreshments will be served. This includes
sandwiches such as turkey, roast beef, chicken, tuna and grilled
eggplant. Chase also provides us a very nice spread of treats,
which include brownies, cookies, popcorn, bottled water and
assorted beverages.
Please join us for this meeting, you won't want to miss it!
SPECIAL INSTRUCTIONS:
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* IN ORDER TO PASS THROUGH SECURITY AT CHASE, WE NEED YOU TO RSVP
* PRIOR TO THURSDAY, SO WE CAN GET YOUR NAME ON THE ATTENDEE LIST.
* ADVANCE REGISTRATION AND PHOTO ID ARE REQUIRED!
-- RSVP DEADLINE IS 15-JAN-2003 16:00 --
-- YOU WILL RECEIVE AN RSVP ACK MESSAGE WHEN YOU ARE REGISTERED --
Please RSVP if you know you are attending or if you think you may
be attending. This will help us arrange for a letter to security
for all of Unigroup. It will also help us to determine the correct
amount of food and refreshments.
To REGISTER for this event, please RSVP by:
a) If at all possible, please use the Unigroup Registration Page.
This will allow us to have some automation in the registration process.
b) If you have no web access and you really must EMail us, send an
EMail containing the FIRST and LAST NAMEs of the persons attending
to the Unigroup RSVP Address:
unigroup-rsvp
HP http://www.hp.com/
HP BCRS http://www.hp.com/hps/tech/continuity/
HP Services http://www.hp.com/hps/hpc/i_business.htm
HP, Business Recovery Services
Education:
BA Education: Western Montana State University, UC Berkeley.
CIS Education: American River College, Sierra College.
Certifications and Awards:
Certified Business Continuity Professional,
Disaster Recovery Institute.
Certified Novell Engineer,
Novell.
System & Advanced Management,
Hewlett-Packard.
Windows Application Specialist,
Micro Soft.
Financial Management Achievement Awarded,
U.S. Department of Energy.
Area Manager's Ward 1993,
U.S. Department of Energy.
Yearly Membership (includes all meetings): $ 50.00
* Non-Member Single Meeting: $ 20.00
Student Yearly Membership: $ 20.00
Non-Member Student Single Meeting (with ID): $ 5.00
Cash, Check, American Express.
* Employees of JPM/Chase (with ID) can attend general meetings
at NO CHARGE.
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