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5 Reasons to Set Up Business Website Monitoring
Today’s guest blog post is from Davis J Martin. As a business owner, you want your website to be up and running; but you may not have considered using a 3rd party monitoring service. If that’s you, keep reading. I know, … Continue reading
I recently found this slideshare about how to run a post-mortem here: Post Mortems for Humans I am personally a firm believer that if you want a reliable, problem-resistant system, you have to incrementally improve by asking questions and systematically eradicating … Continue reading
Solve Human Error Disclosures
It doesn’t matter how good your technology systems are if you trust people to follow certain steps to keep data secure as a prison in England learned the hard way. The best part of this story is that they “were … Continue reading
Proactive Server Monitoring Pitfalls
The following is a guest post by Svet Stefanov. He is a freelance writer and a contributing author to WebSitePulse’s blog. Svet is currently exploring the topic of proactive monitoring, and how it can help small and big business steer clear of shallow … Continue reading
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Tagged Availability, Crisis Management, Disasters, Risk, Software Monitoring
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Software You Hope You Never Use
I was reminded recently of a project I worked on several years ago for a local university. This software was a simple system to be used in emergency situations to help account for students who may have been affected and … Continue reading
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What You Wish You Knew During a Crisis…
From my guest post at ContinuityInsights.com During a crisis, there is almost by definition a shortage of accessible information. Because of the time pressure a disaster creates, anything considered noise gets filtered out and ignored. However, if you could create … Continue reading
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Tagged Availability, Crisis Management, Risk, Scalability, Software Design
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