Case study: Pandemic “dress rehearsal” uncovered glitches for one small firm
Not everyone agrees on the need to do a full-boat practice run — but it can’t hurt anything except your short-term expenses.
Data aggregation vendor QL2 Software Inc. already follows best practices to prepare for the worst. It has redundant systems and regularly reviews its plans for both disaster recovery and business continuity. But when it comes to the ongoing H1N1 pandemic, company executives admit, they were a bit worried.
To disarm their concerns, they organized and conducted a “dress rehearsal” to see how the company could handle significant staff outages and to find out what they could do better.
The goal: Ensuring that they could still operate if more than 10% of the 42 employees in its Seattle headquarters were infected with swine flu and forced to stay home.
See Case study: Pandemic “dress rehearsal” uncovered glitches for one small firm, by Todd R. Weiss from Computerworld.
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