Disaster Planning for Pandemic Flu

Editor’s Note: In searching for information on DR planning for a pandemic, I came across this article from December 2005. It was first published on BankersOnline.com in response to the bird flu scare H5N1 that was making headlines at the time. Since it appears a pandemic may indeed be upon us, in the interest of…

What the New U.S. CTO and CIO Should Consider

President Obama’s appointment of the first U.S. CIO and federal CTO on April 18, shows a significant shift in how the federal government is approaching technology. Achieving the goals of giving all Americans a voice and ensuring accountability for how the government spends money is a difficult and important task. These two new positions present…

It is Time to Think Beyond IT

More than ten years ago, EMA consultants assessed processes and technologies involved with monitoring and managing manufacturing floors, utilities, transportation fleets and other “business infrastructures” and came to the conclusion that great economies of scale could be achieved by consolidating these requirements. In other words, by leveraging IT capabilities for monitoring, instrumentation, asset planning, security,…