Volume 1, Issue 11
November 2005
30 Years of Excellence
N.O.R.A.D.'s News Brief
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Volume 1, Issue 11
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N.O.R.A.D.'s News Brief |
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| Hurricane Wilma-Lessons Learned Category 1 - Nothing to worry about! We’ve had plenty of those! They’re just tropical storms with a little more kick to it. Not! By the time Wilma left us, trees were down, power was lost to over 3.2 million customers, windows blew out of high rise offices and condos, gas was hard to find, ice and water, too. Even brand new office buildings had their windows popping out! Wilma was definitely the storm of unexpected consequences! One customer called us that they had no electricity and couldn’t run their servers. Worst yet, their office in Denver couldn’t download critical files because the Florida office’s Internet connection was down. Was our backup storage
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facility up and running? Did it have Internet connec-tivity? It sure did! By using Secure-Trek’s Webrestore program any PC with Internet access could retrieve the critical files and continue doing business. Don’t have an office located in Denver? Need to keep serving your customers? Your power and Internet connection is down? Have a disaster recovery plan that will send key employees to areas unaffected by the storm. All they need is a laptop and Internet access and they can be in business in a matter of a few hours. You may even want to
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identify locations that include temporary office space with high-speed Internet access and phone service, and hotel rooms for your staff. So what lessons have we learned?
Contact SecureTrek at (800) 684-9805 or sales@securetrek.com
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