Disaster Management Scope and Major Players

Disaster Management Scope:

Major Players- Consulting

Risk Assessment for DM / Crisis Management- Riskwatch, Metric Stream, Sunguard Availability services, Strategic BCP, Good Harbour, Lexington Secutiry Group, Big 4 consulting group etc

IT Service Dependency Mapping- CA Technologies, IBM, BMC Software, VMWare – EMC, Neebula, Service-Now

Business Impact Analysis- eBRP Solutions, EMC, Fusion Risk Mgmt, SunGuard, Recoveryplanner.com, Coop Systems etc.

Cloud Based Recovery Services- Amazon, AT&T, Navisite, Rackspace, Sunguard availability services etc.

DR Service Level Management- Lawson, Oracle, Sunguard Availability Services etc.

Outage Management Systems- CGI, Intergraph, GE Energy, Microsoft, Oracle, Ventyx (An ABB Company)

Key Methodologies, Standards and Frameworks

BCM Methodologies, Standards and Frameworks- ITIL V3, BCI, ASIS International BCM Guidelines, BSI (BS 25999 and BS 25777), DRII etc.

Major Players- Hardware

Surveillance Equipments- Huawei, Honeywell, Sony, Mobitix, GSS, PIXIM, Chinese and Local Vendors

Sensors / Radio Communication Equipments- Sony, GST, Allegero, Bosch, Delphi Corp, GE Sensing, Honeywell Sensing, Xensor, Motorola, Harris etc.

Fire Fighting Equipments- SFFECO, Angus Fire, Global Fire Equipments, Distributed regional players

Turn Key Vendors including Civil Infrastructure (Emergency Operations Centre, Simulation Centers, Mobile Command vehicles etc.)- Lockheed Martin, EADS / Cassidian, Raytheon etc.

Major Players- Software

IT Service Fail-over Automation- IBM, Sanovi Technologies, Symantec, VMWare

BCM Planning Software- eBRP Logic, Fusion Risk Management, Strategic BCP, Sun Guard Availibility Services, Metricstream, Coop Systems, Bold Planning Solutions etc.

Crisis / Incident Management Software- eBRP Solutions, Emergeo, Missionmode solutions, Strategic BCP, Previstar, Recoveryplanner.com, Sun Guard Availability, Disastersnet, Esi etc.

Test Lab Provisioning- BMC Software, CA, Citrix Systems, Coudshare, HP, IBM, Skytap, VMWare,

Mobile Service Level Mgmt. Software- Boxtone, Devinto, Good Technology, Neverfail Group, Conceivium Business, Mobileiron etc.
 

Data Restoration Services- Seagate, Kroll Ontrack, TLSI, Fields Data Recovery

Emergency / Mass Notification Services- MIR3, Cassidian, Federal Signal, FirstCall, Sun Guard availability, Benbria, Amcon Software, WARN etc.

Server Based Replication- CA, EMC, Novell, Oracle, Quest Software, Red Hat, Symantec, VMWare, IBM, Microsoft etc.

Print / Mail Business Continuity & DR- Business Continuity, CMCS, Kubra, Mail-guard, Micro Dynamics Group, Cosentry etc.

Major Players- Certification & Training

Certification- BS 25999 (Individual and Company certification) 

DRII (Associate Profesisonal, Certified Professional, Master Professional, Certified Business Vendor, Certified Functional Vendor, Certified Auditor, Certified Lead Auditor) 

BCI (Certificate, Specialist, Associate Member, Member and Fellow level of certifications) 

IAEM (Certificate for Emergency Management) 

Training- Big 4 Consulting Firms, Other software implementation companies

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