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David W. Fenton
Some of you may have heard that there was a major steam pipe
explosion in midtown Manhattan yesterday evening, and I posted this
in another forum. It applies equally well here, I think.
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One of my clients has their offices in the block where the steam
explosion in midtown happened today, and they are probably kicking
themselves for not taking my advice seriously about a year ago when
I suggested that they provision their server with Windows Terminal
Server CALs so that if they had an emergency where they couldn't get
into their offices, they'd be able to continue to work remotely as
long as power remained on in the office.
I lived near Gramercy Park at the time of the 1989 steam explosion,
and I recall quite clearly that some people were not allowed back
into the adjacent apartment buildings for days, and then all they
were allowed to do was get a suitcase full of belongings and then
get out. It's possible my client will have to set up offices
somewhere else entirely. I'm not responsible for their backup
strategy, but I hope they have offsite backups. As long as their
server remains on, I can get them set up on any server with their
mainline database applications. But I don't know about email and
everything else.
So, does your business have any disaster recovery plans at all?
Where would your business be if you had your offices in one of the
buildings within a block of this explosion?
Do you depend on ongoing business from clients who likely don't have
disaster plans? If so, you might ask them to give it some thought
and use my client as an example -- they had a chance to do something
about it over a year ago, and didn't think it was important enough
to do right away.
explosion in midtown Manhattan yesterday evening, and I posted this
in another forum. It applies equally well here, I think.
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One of my clients has their offices in the block where the steam
explosion in midtown happened today, and they are probably kicking
themselves for not taking my advice seriously about a year ago when
I suggested that they provision their server with Windows Terminal
Server CALs so that if they had an emergency where they couldn't get
into their offices, they'd be able to continue to work remotely as
long as power remained on in the office.
I lived near Gramercy Park at the time of the 1989 steam explosion,
and I recall quite clearly that some people were not allowed back
into the adjacent apartment buildings for days, and then all they
were allowed to do was get a suitcase full of belongings and then
get out. It's possible my client will have to set up offices
somewhere else entirely. I'm not responsible for their backup
strategy, but I hope they have offsite backups. As long as their
server remains on, I can get them set up on any server with their
mainline database applications. But I don't know about email and
everything else.
So, does your business have any disaster recovery plans at all?
Where would your business be if you had your offices in one of the
buildings within a block of this explosion?
Do you depend on ongoing business from clients who likely don't have
disaster plans? If so, you might ask them to give it some thought
and use my client as an example -- they had a chance to do something
about it over a year ago, and didn't think it was important enough
to do right away.