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Other Professional Organizations
Other Professional Organizations Links
Business Continuity InstituteThe Business Continuity Institute (BCI) provides recognition and professional qualifications for business continuity practitioners. Represented in 14 countries, membership brings significant benefits to professionals world-wide, providing recognition, networking, education and knowledge.
International Association of Emergency ManagersThe International Association of Emergency Managers (IAEM) is a non-profit educational organization dedicated to promoting the goals of saving lives and protecting property during emergencies and disasters.
International Disaster Recovery Association"IDRA is a group originally comprised of those having a special interest in the voice, data, image, and sensory telecommunications aspects of Disaster Recovery Planning (DRP), Contingency Planning and Business Continuation. This is in its 11th year. "A second IDRA special interest group (SIG) has developed due to members interests and concentrates on security, terrorism, employee safety and workplace violence." IDRA Also offers annual conferences. next in Spring, 2002.
National Emergency Management Association"NEMA is the professional association of state and pacific caribbean insular state emergency management directors committed to: - Providing national leadership and expertise in comprehensive emergency management; - Serving as a vital information and assistance resource for state and territorial directors and their governors; and - Forging strategic partnerships to advance continuous improvements in emergency management."
Risk Insurance Management SocietyThe Risk and Insurance Management Society is a proacitve voice on behalf of risk managers. It has been around since 1950 and serves over eight thousand professionals around the world. They have a Crisis Resource Center on their Web site which is a list of links beneficial to the industry and there is conference information as well as professional development courses.
The Uptime Institute"The Site Uptime Network® knowledge consortium helps member companies avoid downtime, optimize site infrastructure investment, and achieve a higher level of professionalism in uptime operations practices. By providing a structured and regular forum for participating companies to share ideas, concerns, and problems, the Site Uptime Network facilitates the transfer of important information so members can quickly achieve higher levels of quality performance and customer satisfaction. The synergy of shared ...
ICORICOR is an international non-profit education and credentialing organization that provides professional development, certification, thought-leadership, and the latest in research and industry trends. The focus of our professional development and credentialing programs is Business Continuity Management, Crisis Management & Communications, Data Center Management & Emergency Management.
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| #1 | Service Level Agreement and SLA Guide - Directory of service level agreement template, guidebook, training, and audit resources. | |
| #2 | Business continuity metrics: How much can you afford to lose? - When developing a disaster recovery plan, companies need to evaluate how fast they can get their businesses running again and how much data they can afford to lose. Bob Cramer, CEO of LiveVault Corp., offers tips on key metrics companies should use to make these decisions. | |
| #3 | Saint Lucia Disaster Response Plan - Saint Lucia Disaster Response Plan | |
| #4 | A Design Language for Emergency Operations Center Facilities - "Most EOC layouts can be described in terms of a few basic models, each of which has unique implications for the organizational dynamics it supports. These basic layouts are combined and hybridized to yield almost all real-world EOC floorplans." | |
| #5 | IBM's Web Service Level Agreements (WSLA) Project - The Web Service Level Agreement (WSLA) project, developed by IBM, addresses service level management issues within a Web services environment. Issues addressed include SLA specification, creation and monitoring. The project provides: Explicit specifications of servlce level agreements that can be monitored by the service provider, customer and even by a third-party; Ease of SLA creation using template-based authoring tools; and, Distributed monitoring framework for deployment in a single site or across multiple sites by translating SLA data in configuration information for the individual service provider components and third party services to perform the measurement and supervision activities. The WSLA creation and monitoring framework complements various other projects addressing issues on proactive management of a service environment, e.g., provisioning resources, workload management, etc., according to the agreed upon service levels specified via WSLA. | |
| #6 | University of Miami Disaster Recovery Plan for Computer Servuces - | |
