Podcasts and Disaster Recovery Planning

This 36-minute podcast recorded during the EDUCAUSE 2007 Annual Conference features Kenneth Richard Schroyer, ITS Disaster Recovery Strategy Manager, The Pennsylvania State University in a session titled "It Can't Happen Here: Developing a Unique Three-Tiered Administrative IT Disaster Recovery Plan."

The session abstract:

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.

This one-hour podcast was recorded at the EDUCAUSE 2007 Southeast Regional Conference. This keynote panel discussion, entitled “Weathering the Storm – Preparing for, Responding to, and Recovering from Emergencies,” features Betty Hawkins, program manager at the University of South Carolina, David Sliman, directory of technology at the University of Southern Mississippi, and Frank O’Quinn, deputy policy and IT disaster recovery officer at Louisiana State University. Using examples from their own institutional experiences, they share real advice for emergency preparedness and response, answering the question, “How can we plan and prepare in a way that is realistic and meaningful?”

This podcast features a keynote address from the 2007 Enterprise Conference in Chicago, Illinois. Our speaker is H. David Lambert, Vice President for Information Services and Chief Information Officer at Georgetown University. His speech is titled “The Adaptable University” and runs approximately 53 minutes.

Institutions of higher education have become increasingly concerned about their ability to maintain critical services to faculty, students, and staff in the event of a major disruption. As we build or buy new information systems, enhance new facilities, and design new programs, we must be concerned with business continuity and creating resilient, adaptable institutions that consider academic sustainability in every aspect of the enterprise.

 

In this 49-minute recording from the 2006 EDUCAUSE Annual Conference, we'll hear from Mitchell Dysart and John Ellinger in a session entitled Statewide Disaster Recovery for Ohio's Higher Education. They will share details from a collaboration between The Ohio State University and the University of Cincinnati  to establish the necessary infrastructure to support redundant disaster recovery for any higher education institution in Ohio.

In this 23 minute recording, we'll hear from Marilu Goodyear sits down with Miguel Angel Garcia, Vice President of Administration & Finance at the Polytechnic University of Puerto Rico. Listen in as they chat about ERP deployments, disaster recovery, immigration and more.

This 42 minute recording provides coverage of the 2005 EDUCAUSE Annual Conference Session entitled Crisis Averted: Disaster Recovery and Business Continuance Programs at Purdue.

This 49 minute recording provides coverage of the 2005 EDUCAUSE Annual Conference Session entitled It Was a Dark and Stormy . . . Eight Weeks! Maintaining Critical IT Services During the 2004 Hurricane Season.

This 47 minute recording provides coverage of the 2005 EDUCAUSE Annual Conference Session entitled The 2005 Campus Computing Survey.