This year’s theme for Business Continuity Week is “Solving the Business Resilience Puzzle”

To fully appreciate and receive much of the real value this week offers, please check out the following links:

Business Continuity Institute (BCI)

A  full program of available webcasts can be viewed by clicking here

http://www.businesscontinuityawarenessweek.org/

Recently, a decision was made by one of our staff writers, Sally A. Smoczynski, to summarize a listing of benefits that we believe are gained by an organization upon completion and integration of the ISO 20000 standard into their organization.

Sally wrote an article on the topic and posted it on the web for everyone to view.  That posting is on a new Business Continuity Lifeline website located at http://www.continuitycompliance.org/information/it-service-management/iso-20000-implementation-benefits-gained/ .  We hope that this information adds meaningful content if your organization is just now considering an ISO 20000 implementation or even if you have already integrated the standard into your company.

And as always, we welcome your thoughts and comments on this posting — that will most certainly assist our own continuous improvement efforts in this area.

As your business continuity planners work on their 2010 projects, you may be facing an organizational decision soon regarding whether or not you will move to the current “Cloud Computing” environment.

To help your teams prepare for that situation, you should read a recent article posted on the Network Computing website.  In this article, written by Satish Joshi, and as one of the very first considerations for a company to review, he goes on to state,

“It is therefore of paramount importance to decide what exactly you are trying to do by ‘moving computing into the cloud.’ The computing cloud can be viewed at three different levels of abstraction:

• At the bottom level, the cloud is simply a virtualized data center that offers you variable capacity for computing, storage, communications etc
• At the middle level, the cloud is a whole platform including the middleware (apps servers, ESB, etc) and a complete application development environment
• At the top level, the cloud actually provides complete business process functionality with variable capacity and service levels on demand. Your roadmap and cost benefit equations will be completely different depending which layers you wish to utilize.”

Click here to read more about this current topic so relevant to the needs of today’s business continuity and risk management team members.