Around the world business leaders are making plans to manage the impact of the pandemic crisis on their business. Contingency plans look at all areas of business operations from HR (will employees be paid if there is a forced shutdown, will they be compelled to come to work if the business stays open?) to communications Issues, travel and work at home plans, and of course IT.
Some of the key discussion points in an IT contingency plan include:
While a major outbreak is going to have an impact on every business, companies with a disaster recovery strategy which includes cloud computing, will see much less impacted of the crisis. At BlueLock, our clients supported by redundant data centers in Salt Lake City and Indianapolis, have 24/7 access to their data and applications.
Some of the key discussion points in an IT contingency plan include:
- Web capability for communications
- Staffing issues
- Data Center operations (lights out operation, automated patching)
- Remote Access
- Security
- Help Desk operations
- PC support for employee personal computers
- Ensuring security of access and data while dealing with employee personal computers
- Video-conferencing
- Recovering from cascading emergencies (flu combined with other crisis hurricanes, terrorism, etc.)
While a major outbreak is going to have an impact on every business, companies with a disaster recovery strategy which includes cloud computing, will see much less impacted of the crisis. At BlueLock, our clients supported by redundant data centers in Salt Lake City and Indianapolis, have 24/7 access to their data and applications.
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