elgato
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| Posted: Sat Mar 12, 2011 6:55 pm Post subject: Japan Quake Serves as Wakeup Call for IT Managers |
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The horrific crisis is a clear reminder to IT managers about their own business continuity systems and how well-prepared they are for such an event.
The 8.9-magnitude March 11 earthquake off the northeast coast of Japan and its subsequent Pacific Ocean tsunami destroyed and severely damaged several cities and towns on the island of Honshu, knocking out utilities and communications connections that impacted much of the Pacific Rim.
It isn't immediately known how many IT facilities or data centers were washed away in the disaster, but the mere fact that this horrific crisis happened serves to remind IT managers about their own business continuity systems and how well-prepared they are for such an event.
A fact of human nature is that people become complacent as time passes without a real disaster alert affecting an IT system. An event like the March 11 quake ostensibly should serve to wake up those who might not have been testing their systems regularly—or scare those who, in fact, have no backup systems at all in place.
"First of all, everybody should be threat-aware at all times," Bill Hughes, a business continuity specialist at SunGard Availability Services, told eWEEK. "They also should be looking at all their company's locations and supply chain in terms of people, when they are checking their data center resiliency and data recovery systems."
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PatchDog
Joined: 28 Feb 2007
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| Posted: Sat Mar 12, 2011 11:59 pm Post subject: |
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| This disaster will also affect ecommerce and I am curious as to how it will be handled. I remember when I was in Louisiana and Katrina hit I had about a dozen packages at least stranded in the New Orleans postal hub. It was months before those packages were delivered and buyers got refunds but never bothered to pay after the packages arrived either. Imagine thousands of packages washed out to sea, lost forever....will online and mail order sellers be held responsible for these Acts of God again? For myself, I dont recall many recent shipments to Japan but I have sent many over the years so I dont expect to be affected but there are some sellers out thyere who will. |
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