Study Reveals Californians Must Increase Earthquake Preparedness; Less Than 20 Percent Have Prepared Their Homes; Only 40 Percent Have Sufficient Water

Sacramento, CA (PRWEB) March 5, 2010

A majority of Californians have taken initial steps toward earthquake preparedness but more than 60 percent of Californians have not done enough to make their homes safer and guard their personal finances in preparation for an inevitable, large-scale earthquake, according to a recent California Earthquake Preparedness Survey.

Although state and local public safety and emergency management agencies are better prepared than ever before, California residents have focused on easy preparedness activities such as collecting supplies and making back-up copies of important documents but they have not done more difficult and expensive activities such as securing the contents of their home or purchasing earthquake insurance, according to the survey.

Key findings of the survey were:

Study Reveals Californians Must Increase Earthquake Preparedness; Less Than 20 Percent Have Prepared Their Homes; Only 40 Percent Have Sufficient Water

Athens Group Announces Hurricane Preparedness Audit and Remediation Service

Houston, TX (PRWEB) June 28, 2010

Today, Athens Group, an independent consulting company that specializes in risk mitigation and problem remediation for control systems on all types of drilling and production assets, announced the availability of the companys Hurricane Preparedness and Remediation Service. The new offering is a combination of the companys proven Alarm Management, Software Configuration Management and Operational Failures Modes Effects and Criticality Analysis Services. It is specifically designed to quickly identify high-risk operational areas and rapidly resolve issues which could significantly delay disaster recovery efforts, such as malfunctioning, missing and buried alarms; loss of power; and untested and out of date system backup files.

If the predictions of recognized organizations such as The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association (NOAA) and the Department of Atmospheric Science at Colorado State are correct, 2010 could be one of the strongest hurricane seasons on record. Drilling Contractors and Operators, always concerned about the safety of their workers and the environment, are taking additional precautionary steps this year, especially in the area of mission-critical control systems software now prevalent on late generation assets. This new technology assurance service, executed by third-party consultants with the most industry experience in this highly-specialized area, will help assure workers, the public, lender groups and stockholders that everything that can be done to decrease risk has been done.

About Athens Group

The high rate of non-productive time (NPT) and project delays on todays highly-automated offshore assets is unacceptable! Drilling Contractors and Operators rely on Athens Group to help them reduce NPT, improve safety and safeguard the environment through the prevention of software-related equipment failures. Our Drilling Technology AssuranceSM Services were developed specifically for highly integrated control systems and are tailored for each phase of the asset lifecycle. Athens Group has more expertise in this specialized area than any other vendor. Our Proven PracticesSM Methodology; software, hardware, and network topology experience; and vendor equipment experience speed risk identification and mitigation. This is why the cost ratio of our services to NPT savings typically exceeds 1:100. Our customers, industry-leading companies such as BP, Chevron, ENI, ExxonMobil, Maersk, Marathon, Noble Drilling, Pacific Drilling, Shell, Stena Drilling, Total and Transocean, to name just a few, are all referenceable.

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Hurricane Irene Natural Disaster Business Preparedness Plans

Wilmington, North Carolina, USA (PRWEB) August 26, 2011

blue dog NETWORK, one of the fastest growing IT cloud solutions providers in the world, announces fast deployment initiative to help companies with back-up and recovery information solutions to prepare for natural disasters.

Hurricane Irene looms ever closer to the east coast of the United States. In the event of a natural disaster, preparation is key to ensure people and property are safe. Property can be replaced. Lives cannot.

Business managers can now quickly ensure data and information, a valuable life line for the company, is backed-up from impending disaster before the worse happens. Protect IT, secure IT and save IT now with blue dog NETWORK. Agility is a powerful competitive edge in every industry.

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Natural Disaster Preparedness Plans for Business Remain Critical Issues Threats of Power Outages and Connectivity Loss Require Immediate Action to Secure Data

North Carolina, USA (PRWEB) September 09, 2011

blue dog NETWORK, one of the fastest- growing IT cloud solutions providers in the world, extended the special fast deployment back- up and disaster recovery initiatives launched recently in response to continued demand and impending natural disasters.

Hurricanes, flooding, wide-spread fires, tornados, even earthquakes: natural disasters are eminent. Preparation is key to ensure information technology remains safe, communication connectivity is maintained, intellectual property is protected, and business continuance is secured.

Impending disasters are a wake-up call to businesses who have hit the snooze alarm once too often about their information technology back-up and network recovery plans.

Natural disasters definitely raise awareness of the importance of IT business preparedness, stated Dana Vizneau, CEO for blue dog NETWORK. Fail to plan and plan to fail is unfortunately true. Thats one reason we implemented our fast deployment action plan, to help business managers address immediate IT issues with confidence. The time to secure is now.

Fast Deployment in Minutes. Immediate peace of mind plus long term ROI benefits

blue dog network responded with focused systems engineering teams standing by 24/7. Every business is supported within minutes of request. Immediate IT back-up solutions and recovery is served and protected with one of the most powerful cloud and redundant secure data center infrastructures in the world.

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Loss of power is one of the top issues companies address during a natural disaster. Ensuring communications stay connected and data remains secure is mission-critical. Any downtime is too much. blue dog NETWORK provides the highest level of uninterrupted power, back-up recovery and [cloud continuance business support:

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Dolly Drive Uses Fathers Day to Promote Family Cloud Backup Citing FEMAs Resolve to Be Ready 2012 Emergency Preparedness Campaign

New York, NY (PRWEB) June 08, 2012

Cirrus Thinking, makers of the award-winning Dolly Drive cloud backup and storage for Mac, have launched a Be the Dad! promotional campaign through Fathers day to encourage families to backup their most vital data on their computers using cloud storage. The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) cites the importance of cloud backup in their disaster preparedness campaign Resolve to be Ready 2012 at Ready.gov

One of the most important things Dads do for their families is to ensure their safety and protection in any situation. said Anthony Palermo, CEO of Dolly Drive. That includes providing the tools to protect family pictures, documents, videos and virtually every single thing they put on their computers.

We built Dolly Drive with family capabilities so that a single admin could make sure everything under a households virtual roof was synced, stored and backed up in the cloud. When you add our built in bootable local clone, its safe to say that if you want to ‘Be the Dad’ Dolly Drive does more to protect user data and give them access than any service in the market.

As part of the promotion, Dolly Drive will offer 3 months free on all one and two-year contracts of their sync, store, backup and clone service for Mac.

Dolly Drive is an all-in-one sync, store and backup service designed for Mac. In addition to providing Mac users offsite cloud storage and mobile access to expand hard drive space, the application allows users to create a bootable clone of their Mac on an external hard drive for local disaster recovery. See more at http://www.dollydrive.com

About Cirrus Thinking

Cirrus Thinking was founded in 2009 by a pair of passionate Apple fans with the goal of delivering the critical advantages of cloud services to Apple users at the consumer, small businesses and enterprise levels. The first product Dolly Drive, an online backup solution for Apples Time Machine launched in 2011 and was named Maclife Magazines Best Software and Best of Show at MacWorld 2011. Cirrus Thinking has offices in New York and Miami, with data centers located in the United States and Europe.

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Eden Prairie, Minnesota (PRWEB) August 21, 2012

The increase in epoch disasters begs a preparedness response, not just from FEMA, but from each of us on an individual level to protect our personal security. Blackboxitup.com has launched a campaign to provide just such a reply to ongoing threat by developing a solution to the potential destruction of valuables and enabling potential claimants to provide needed proof of claim to their insurance providers. Concurrently, Blackboxitup.coms built-in reproduction capabilities for all those taking advantage of personal black box services.

The project seeks individual support and input and is available for viewing at the following link: http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/154023. It represents social networking, but not just for the purpose of being social, but for an actual purpose. The focus is on building a disaster preparedness community for a proactive response to floods, earthquakes, tsunamis, hurricanes, fires, theft, or come what may. It aims to protect individuals and to provide an aid in replacing their valuables in the event of a catastrophic loss. Its incumbent upon each potential claimant to help themselves by helping their insurance company with comprehensive proof of losses. The system can be implemented for a variety of other purposes too.

Although, there are enumerable data storage and recovery organizations for individuals to choose from, there are none available that will provide the level of comprehensive services afforded those who deposit their items in their personal black box, which can then be retrieved and implemented in so many different ways that arent available with data backup or cloud storage alone. Blackboxitup.com is being designed and engineered from the ground up for and by the community-at-large. Every participant has a voice in the features that are being included in the website, program and physical black box under development.

Blackboxitup.com is also partnering discussions with major electronics retailers, pursuing relationships with such powerhouses as Walmart, Best Buy, Frys Electronics as well as manufacturers such as Sony (Tokyo) & Samsung (Seoul, Korea), Neat Companies and several Israeli & Dubai companies, to name just a few, to bring personal black box services to individuals and companies along with associated peripheral devices to the individuals to aid them in maximizing the use of their personal black box.

For further details see http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/154023 or go directly to http://www.blackboxitup.com.

For further information and details Blackboxitup.com is preparing personal outreach via private meetings, talks, seminars and podcasts. Please stay tuned.

Contact: Monti Knazze saveme(at)blackboxitup(dot)com, (952) 544-6417.

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Natural Disaster Business Preparedness Plans Fast Deployment Initiative Announced by Blue Label Hosting

Wilmington, NC (PRWEB) October 30, 2012

Blue Label Hosting, one of the fastest growing IT cloud solutions providers in the Carolinas, announces fast deployment initiative to help companies with back-up and recovery information solutions to prepare for natural disasters as well as virtual desktops to ensurer data is never lost – no matter the situation.

Hurricane Sandy looms ever closer to the east coast of the United States. In the event of a natural disaster, preparation is key to ensure people and property are safe. Everyone agrees things can be replaced. Lives cannot.

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