Before disaster strikes, test your recovery plan
Would you be able to access your software if a flood or tornado wiped out your office?
Fortunately for financial adviser Robert Bolen, the recent floods that inundated Nashville, Tennessee, skirted his office in suburban Brentwood.
Although he suffered little more than the inconvenience of being stuck at home for a day, the floods gave him pause.
“I realized my disaster recovery plan had some holes in it,” said Mr. Bolen, the head of Bolen Dodson & Associates, a registered investment advisory firm that manages $65 million in assets.
See Before disaster strikes, test your recovery plan, by Davis D. Janowski for Investment News.
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