February 2023
Make Your Disaster Plan Pay
By Guy Robertson
Your corporate disaster plan is more useful than you think. It includes many potential benefits aside from protecting you and your coworkers in the event of a fire, flood, or earthquake. Don’t ignore these benefits: enhanced safety and security, identification of future leaders, improving your brand with your clients, and even improved morale. They can justify your disaster plan even if you never need to activate it.
No A-S-K, No G-E-T
By Ellen Koskinen-Dodgson
Are you one of those IT Directors that gives up too easily? For example, you complete and submit your budget request, then watch as management deems something else in another department to be more important. You give up gracefully and accept the outcome. That might be a big mistake. Here’s the best practice for what you should do instead.
The Future of Fax without the PSTN
By Peter Aggus
Fax is one big reason why some users don’t want the PSTN to be shut down. This 1980’s era technology survives against the odds. Brick sized cellphones, dial-up modems, 8” floppy disks—all are similar aged and all are extinct. Curiously fax survives—but is it time for that too to go extinct? Should we find better ways of transmitting printed material or must we keep fax on life support?
The PSTN is Not Dead (Yet)
By Roban Chahal
In this installment of our series of articles on the planned demise of the PSTN, we look at who still needs copper connectivity to the telephone company central office. We asked readers about their concerns and what they were worried about. Here are their comments as well as our observations about the consequences—both intended and not.