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Hello again and thanks for taking the time to scan this month's VAN newsletter. This month's small reader bonus is below and relates to the next topic. We sincerely hope you enjoy it. Before moving on to the most important message, please know we will publish more interesting articles next month. We will finish the Storage Network Management series authored by Symantec's Roger Cummings and originally available through the Storage Network Industry Association (SNIA). Through special considerations, SNIA is enabling us to make these publications available to VAN readers.
From The Heart There are few more tragic events conceivable than the massive destruction unleashed upon the United States' Central Gulf Coast by Hurricanes Katrina and Rita . As you likely know, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has determined that, historically, Hurricane Katrina was the most destructive storm ever to strike the United States. Yet, Hurricane Rita's arrival three weeks later only amplified Hurricane Katrina's original damage, it dramatically expanded the destruction zone. Now , the entire central Gulf Coast essentially lies in ruin. The VAN team extends its most profound sympathies
to those affected by Hurricane Katrina and Hurricane Rita and encourages
donations to the American Red Cross, accessible through the Symantec's
homepage. Click here
for a variety of alternate charitable organizations In accessing physical storm damage, it appears that datacenter continuity, backup, and recovery services were often successful where used, though telephone line and mobile telephone services experienced long outages. Even so, the disaster could have been much worse because of telephone service outages - news coverage indicated that BellSouth's New Orleans switching center was only saved by Herculean efforts that preserved telephone communications for large portions of the Southern Eastern United States. Finally, in the IT arena, an InfoWorld article titled IT takes stock in Katrina's wake indicates: Preparedness made all the difference between success and failure
in maintaining continuity of IT operations. "We have a customer
right now who didn't plan ahead," said Belinda Wilson, Hewlett-Packard's
executive director of Business Continuity and Availability Services.
"It's a consumer goods retailer in New Orleans that is completely
underwater. No backup. They called us in desperation." Here are additional articles you may find useful in understanding
catastrophe consequences:
We hope you are not personally affected by Hurricane Katrina and
that any of your friends and colleagues that have achieve a speedy
recovery. See you next month. Until then, keep your data safe. Best regards,
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This Month's Small Newsletter Bonus In June 2002, one of the VAN team members visited New Orleans for the Design Automation Conference (DAC). There, he used his panoramic imaging system to capture images of New Orleans life and historic landmarks that are now severely impacted by hurricane Katrina. Departing from our newsletter's normal single-shot feature, here are four images that partially capture the spirit of a magnificent metropolis with immense cultural history. The four shots are of the Bourbon and Orleans Streets in the morning, Bourbon Street at night, a small Bourbon Street trinket store named Jazz Cats, and a small Bourbon Street crowd outside Jazz Cats catching beads tossed from an above balcony. These are scenes of ordinary daily life, now suspended, in and around New Orleans' French Quarter. Remember, if you are not horizontally scrolling the images when looking at the panoramas, you are not looking at the full resolution image… |
