Hurricane Season is Here - Are Your Computers Ready?

By now you've seen that video of the guy who kite-surfed right into a building during Hurricane Fay.


IT is sometimes like that, you think you're okay and then all of a sudden the wind changes or grows in strength and you're heading straight for the wall. Unfair, perhaps, but that's how it is. Considering the potential impact of the loss of your IT infrastructure if the unforeseen (or underforeseen - those things that can happen but no one really considers it to be likely) can have serious consequences.

Take a few moments to think about your infrastructure - is it prone to fire, flood or quake? Maybe Acts of God aren't your problem, maybe it's a malfunctioning fire sprinkler that goes off and floods your data closet. It's usually not the big 9/11, Hurricane Katrinia stuff that gets you, it's the boring, one-off problems that nobody really thought would happen (construction guys cut your fiber lines, a drunk hits the transformer right when your backup generator is down for maintenance). The possibilities for things to go wrong are endless and you can't address everthing. Maybe you can just come up with a plan to cover most of the issues without a huge amount of budget or planning.

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