Stan Gibson

In an effort to provide smaller companies with a technology jump-start in the wake of Sept. 11, the Commerce Department, IT vendors and other business executives unveiled last week a Web site with links to IT service and equipment suppliers. The site, called NYITAssist.com, is part of the ReStart Central initiative to assist businesses that […]

The threat of anthrax-contaminated mail may not have U.S. corporations overhauling their internal mail processes, but it does have companies considering electronic communications for additional business activities, such as bill payment, for the first time. Technologies for e-mail marketing, online billing and account management, and electronic signatures are generating more interest in the wake of […]

A heightened terrorism alert warning from Attorney General John Ashcroft means one thing to IT managers: business as usual. IT executives said they are already on alert and there is nothing more they can do to make their companies ready for a possible attack, the nature and timing of which were not defined in a […]

Forty-seven hours after the impact at the World Trade Centers North Tower took the lives of 733 Cantor Fitzgerald LP staff, including 150 IT workers, the industry-leading bond company was once again taking orders for U.S. Treasury bonds. The reason: a well-conceived disaster recovery plan and skillful, round-the-clock execution on the part of eSpeed Inc., […]

Its commonplace to say that the Sept. 11 attacks have changed everything. It may seem disrespectful to say so, but some things have changed for the better. For example, finally, top corporate management is paying attention to disaster recovery preparedness. That theme emerged from the Technology Managers Forums “Technology Strategies for Business Recovery” conference in […]

The latest strategies IT managers are considering to protect their infrastructures from possible attacks go well beyond computer hardware. Since Sept. 11, the scenario building has led security-conscious users down three distinct paths: securing facilities, data and, especially, people. With mirrored facilities and data backups offering protection from outright attacks on buildings, the focus has […]

One of the most amazing sights of the many staggering images of Sept. 11 was the blizzard of paper that swirled amid the cloud of dust around the collapsing World Trade Center towers. At companies recovering from the catastrophe the question arose, which of those millions of documents were scanned and digitized and which were […]

A cruise ship pier may seem an unlikely spot to serve as the ad hoc nerve center of emergency command and control. But New York chose just such a site and for a number of reasons. The city moved its Office of Emergency Management to Pier 92 and its Family Assistance Center to the adjacent […]

NEW YORK–On Sept. 11, New Yorks Office of Emergency Management at 7 World Trade Center was obliterated at the very moment it was needed the most. To help the city get back on its feet after the most appalling disaster in the nations history, the agencys workers needed to get up and running in new […]

Reporters must travel. To report for eWEEK on recovery efforts stemming from the World Trade Center disaster, this week I made my second trip from Boston to New York since Sept. 11, but my maiden air voyage since the attacks. The Boston Logan Airport experience is decidedly different from what it was before Sept. 11. […]

The road to the disaster recoveries of the past two weeks was paved in the wake of another terrorist attack: the 1993 World Trade Center bombing. Without that earlier attack, many say, the loss of life and economic damage from this months catastrophes in New York and Washington would have been far more devastating. Those […]

If last weeks terrorist attacks were intended to bring America and its information economy to its knees, the terrorists hit the wrong buildings. Many companies in the World Trade Centers Twin Towers, as well as the Department of Defense in the Pentagon, have some of the most thoroughly planned backup and recovery operations anywhere. Those […]