Japan Quake Serves as Wakeup Call for IT Managers
The horrific crisis in Japan 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, 2011 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.
See Japan Quake Serves as Wakeup Call for IT Managers, by Chris Preimesberger for eWeek.com.
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