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Jon William Toigo is a 25-year veteran of disaster recovery
planning and a consultant on business automation issues for both vendors
and consumers of information technology. Toigo has written over 1000 articles
for the technology trade press and is the author of 15 books, including
three on the subject of contingency planning. His latest title in the
DR field, Disaster Recovery Planning 2nd Edition (Prentice Hall PTR: 2000)
is a "best seller" in technical non-fiction and updates the now industry-standard
strategies and practices Toigo helped to define in his first edition,
published in 1990. The latest book includes disaster recovery strategies
for distributed computing platforms and for modern e-business platforms,
which, in his view, are both more critical and more vulnerable than previous
business computing platforms.
Toigo is a much sought after speaker on business technology
who garners high approval ratings from both technical and non-technical
audiences. His presentations combine solid content with humor and energy,
and embody Toigo's earnest desire to dispel the myths and "marketecture"
that often permeate the contingency planning field. (A sample of Toigo's
views are available at his own Disaster Recovery Planning website, www.drplanning.org,
which serves as a "living appendix" to his latest book.) His speaking
engagements in 2000 included:
· Business Continuity Planners Association, guest
speaker, October 2000, St. Paul, MN
· NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Information Science and Technology
Colloquium Series, keynote speaker, October 2000, Greenbelt, MD
· DAFS Developers Conference (DAFS DevCon), speaker, October 2000,
Charlotte, NC
· American Red Cross/MidAmerica Contingency Planning Forum, keynote speaker,
October 2000, St. Louis, MO
· Fall 2000 Networld+Interop SAN Interoperability Panel, moderator,
September 2000, Atlanta, GA
· Credit Suisse/First Boston Communications and Storage Technology
Conference, speaker, July 2000, Santa Barbara, CA
· Technology Excellence in Government 2000 Conference, speaker
and panel moderator, June 2000, Washington, DC
· IBM Summit 2000 Conference, speaker and panelist, April 2000,
Orlando, FL
He also delivered seminars for the University of South Florida's
MBA and MIS degree programs in 2000.
Toigo will be featured in two breakout sessions at IBM's
Business Continuity and Recovery Planning Summit 2001 Conference, April
2001, Orlando, FL, where he will discuss the contingency planning aspects
of Application Service Providers and Business Process Deconstruction.
Over a 20-year period, Jon has held senior positions both
within the IT management teams of several leading financial institutions
and within the consulting organizations of two international systems integrators.
In 1993, he decided to write and consult on an independent basis. His
client list ranges from a host of smaller firms to a who's who of technology
companies, including AT&T, Compaq, Cisco Systems, EMC, Hewlett-Packard
Company, Network Appliance, and many others.
He serves as a columnist for TidalWire.com and PlanetIT.com,
and also for the print edition of Enterprise Systems magazine. His articles
appear frequently in a wide range of publications including Network Computing,
MidRange Systems, Washington Technology, Federal Computer Week, Unisphere,
Scientific American and a host of others.
Toigo bases his small but exclusive consulting and writing
practice in Tampa Bay, FL.
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