EDUCAUSE | Presented at EDUCAUSE Annual Conferences and Disaster Recovery Planning

It Can't Happen Here: Developing a Unique Three-Tiered Administrative IT Disaster Recovery Plan

drupal — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 15:16:34 -0600

What would you do if a broken water pipe temporally disabled your IT capability, or a fire destroyed your primary or secondary IT facilities? Penn State has developed a plan addressing three unique event levels--incidents, disasters, and catastrophes--with three plan phases, each of which initiates a unique recovery response.

Disaster Planning: Maintaining Academic Programs During a Pandemic

drupal — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 13:42:32 -0500

Many campuses are exploring how information technologies might play a critical role, when disaster strikes, in ensuring the continuity of their most essential business, educating students. This panel will explore how Web-based services can be used to minimize the impact on instruction of a significant shutdown of the physical campus. Not all disasters have the same uniform impact; this panel will emphasize how to plan the process, from course preparation to delivery, for pandemics like Avian Flu.

Higher Education IT Readiness for Business Continuity

drupal — Wed, 18 Oct 2006 15:56:47 -0500

How ready are higher education IT units to maintain or restore institutional services in the face of a major disruption? Using preliminary results from a new ECAR study, we'll look at business continuity planning, policy, and infrastructure. This presentation will also cover disaster recovery planning, emergency management, and post-discontinuity stabilization of services and infrastructure.

Leveraging SAN Technology for Disaster Recovery, Server Consolidation, and Information Life-Cycle Management

drupal — Wed, 18 Oct 2006 15:56:43 -0500

Would you like to decrease disaster recovery time from weeks to hours? What is the value of shrinking your server hardware, cooling, and power by 50%? Are you backing up old data? East Carolina University will show you how they are leveraging SAN technology to solve today's exploding data challenges.

Statewide Disaster Recovery for Ohio's Higher Education

drupal — Wed, 18 Oct 2006 15:56:48 -0500

The Ohio State University and the University of Cincinnati have collaborated to establish the necessary infrastructure to support redundant disaster recovery for any higher education institution in Ohio. The capability leverages the existing infrastructure in place at both institutions as well as resources available at the state level, resulting in a cost-efficient, technically effective solution for addressing disaster preparedness.

Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity Planning in a University Environment

drupal — Tue, 01 Nov 2005 12:34:34 -0600

North Carolina State University has implemented a disaster recovery and business continuity program for centralized computing. The program has also expanded to encompass the entire university. This workshop will explain NCSU's process and provide a template for developing and implementing a program for any academic environment. Common pitfalls and challenges will be addressed.

It Was a Dark and Stormy . . . Eight Weeks! Maintaining Critical IT Services During the 2004 Hurricane Season

drupal — Tue, 01 Nov 2005 12:34:29 -0600

This session will highlight how Computer Services & Telecommunications at the University of Central Florida managed university IT operations and infrastructure during three hurricanes over a period of eight weeks. We will also share what we learned regarding disaster preparedness and what changes we have made to our disaster preparedness plans based on what we have learned.

The 2005 Campus Computing Survey

drupal — Tue, 01 Nov 2005 12:34:30 -0600

The Campus Computing Project will present new data from the 2005 survey on the role of information technology in U.S. higher education. Topics include user support, campus portals, wireless networks, strategic and financial planning for IT, instructional integration of IT, campus IT standards, course management systems, and Web site services, plus new national data on IT security issues.

A Tumultuous Year in the Life of a Data Center

drupal — Mon, 21 Jul 2003 15:21:43 -0500

In 2002, the Enterprise Computing Group of the University System of New Hampshire prepared an updated disaster recovery plan and organized the construction of and move to a new data center. Prior to the move, a disaster occurred that provided critical lessons in planning, implementation, and business continuity for enterprise information systems.

Near "Ground Hero" -- IT Lessons Learned in NYC

drupal — Thu, 13 Dec 2001 12:00:00 -0600

The session will begin with a synopsis of efforts undertaken by the IT staffs at two New York City institutions, Pace University and New York University, to support their communities on September 11 and in the ensuing period. It will include summaries of lessons learned thus far from these experiences about preparedness, crisis management, and helping one another cope. The second half of the session will be devoted to informal Q&A.