COVID-19 upends disaster recovery planning
Post-pandemic plans for disaster recovery and business continuity will need to reflect new business realities. Credit: Dreamstime
The COVID-19 pandemic exposed gaps in enterprise disaster recovery and business continuity planning in areas such as remote access, networking, SaaS applications and ransomware. Over the past year, IT execs have been scrambling to plug those gaps and update disaster recovery plans on the fly.
More significantly, the pandemic triggered fundamental IT changes at many organisations, including a hasty migrationof applications to the cloud, an acceleration of digital transformation efforts, the emergency provisioning of new systems and services outside of traditional procurement procedures, and, in many industries, the emergence a new category of full-time, work-at-home employees who are handling mission-critical data on their personal devices.
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The COVID-19 pandemic exposed gaps in enterprise disaster recovery and business continuity planning in areas such as remote access, networking, SaaS applications and ransomware. Over the past year, IT execs have been scrambling to plug those gaps and update DR plans on the fly.
More significantly, the pandemic triggered fundamental IT changes at many organizations, including a hasty migration of applications to the cloud, an acceleration of digital transformation efforts, the emergency provisioning of new systems and services outside of traditional procurement procedures, and, in many industries, the emergence a new category of full-time, work-at-home employees who are handling mission-critical data on their personal devices.
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The city of Grand Rapids wants residents to make their voice heard through responses to quick, anonymous surveys sent directly to their inbox or phone.
Through a partnership with FlashVote, the city plans to issue periodic short-form surveys that will collect timely resident feedback on current municipal topics of concern. City staff is now encouraging residents to sign up so they can share their opinions on a variety of subjects.
Assistant City Manager Doug Matthews said FlashVote enables the city to distribute short, three-to-five-question surveys on timely city issues through email, phone call or text message â depending on the method the participant chooses. Matthews said surveys will cover a wide range of topics like public safety concerns, budget formation, housing, recreation, upcoming city events and more.