Team is ready for any emergency
Disasters can happen, and the smart homeowner or business manager is ready in advance: candles, batteries, rock salt, propane stove, drinking water, walkie-talkies, data...
Even small companies seeking to protect data
UNICOM, a Woonsocket-based computer technology consulting company, was recently approached by a client concerned about the costs it would incur if its e-mail communications...
Continuity plans seen as crucial
The pitch from business continuity planning experts is simple: Companies need to prepare so they can minimize the amount of lost business in the...
Supply-chain disruption is only one of many worries
As American manufacturers increasingly reach across the country and around the world for component parts, they risk becoming victims of disasters many time zones...
Colleges take pains to plan for all possibilities
Charged with the welfare of thousands, Rhode Island’s colleges find themselves at the center of the disaster preparedness movement in the state, even being...
Wickford PR firm specializes in preparedness
Eric Cote had no idea when he and partner Ken D’Ambrosio set out to start a communications firm eight years ago that they’d develop...
Banks set up multi-level recovery systems
If Hurricane Katrina taught those in financial services anything, it was that no level of disaster preparedness is too great.
From losing one branch...
Making it easier to take help from businesses
A little boy was dead from encephalitis, two others had gotten sick, and a fourth had meningitis. There was no apparent connection, but such...
SBA has learned its lessons from Katrina
As a businessman appointed last summer to take over a much-criticized federal agency, coming to Washington has been an education. A central lesson after...
Businesses find flood insurance costly, crucial
At Hope Global in Cumberland, no one mentions the “f-word”: flood.
During the downpours in October 2005, the company’s 300,000-square-foot office was awash...
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