Hurricane Planning 

According to NOAA’s National Weather Service Climate Prediction Center, Global weather patterns are imposing a greater uncertainty in the 2009 hurricane season outlook than in recent years. Forecasters say there is a 70 percent chance of having nine to 14 named storms, of which four to seven could become hurricanes, including one to three major hurricanes (Category 3, 4 or 5). To help our customers keep their systems, business processes and people in operation as they brace for the 2009 hurricane season, SunGard offers a variety of free resources:

SunGard White Paper: Lessons Learned from Hurricane Katrina A well-developed, extensively tested plan for disaster recovery could have helped the businesses of the Gulf Coast region mitigate the impact of Katrina on their systems—thereby softening the overall economic blow of Hurricane Katrina. Find out how to how to maintain operations during a regional disaster in this exclusive white paper.

From the Front Lines: Lessons Learned During Mock Disasters When there's a serious disaster, your incident management team needs to be called into action. They need to address all the possible impacts on your organization’s resources. The safety of your employees—and the future of your company—may be riding on it. Are you 100 percent confident in your team’s ability to address such a crisis?

SunGard Incident Management Checklist While this checklist is not designed as a substitute for a comprehensive Incident Management Team Plan and does not contain recovery procedures specific to your organization, it does reveal the high level tasks that you should consider if you are in threat or response mode. A great starting point to understand the overall scope of incident management.