Apr 6, 2010 0
Business continuity
Seatbelts, insurance, and fail-safe backups. All things that you don’t completely respect the value of unless you use them.
When I first started working at my consulting firm, they had an eye on continuity, and even had nightly backups to an external hard drive. This was reassuring, but still left something to be desired. First, the router, wireless router, and backup drive were all located precariously close to the coffee maker. It doesn’t take much imagination to envision an employee stumbling in for their morning brew inadvertently taking down the office connectivity, and our backup drive as well.