Disaster Recovery Planning: Preparing for the Unthinkable

Dealing with disaster recovery planning and implementation, this book presents the disaster recovery lessons taught by 9/11, the California energy crisis, and the anthrax scare. It also provides a coverage of building DR systems that address networks and encompass end-users who maintain crucial enterprise data on local PCs and notebooks.

JON WILLIAM TOIGO is Managing Partner of Toigo Productions, a consulting firm whose clients have included AT&T, Compaq, Cisco, EMC, and Hewlett-Packard. He has developed over 60 disaster recovery plans for commercial and governmental clients and supported the recovery of clients from disasters ranging from hurricanes, earthquakes, and floods to terrorist attacks post 9/11. He has held senior IT management positions with several leading financial institutions and consulting organizations and has written over 1,000 articles covering storage, infrastructure, and business automation for publications ranging from "Computerworld" to "Scientific American." His Prentice Hall PTR books include "The Holy Grail of Data Storage Management" and "The Essential Guide to Application Service Providers."

Forewords by Michael Shannon, The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, and Gregory Ferris, Executive Director of Global Business Continuity Planning (Institutional Securities), Morgan Stanley