Has this volcano made you rethink your disaster recovery plans?
This is a thought, I was talking to a few people today one of whom has a friend stuck in Spain due to the Iceland Volcano fiasco that has shut down most of the EU airspace, now while it didn't effect my plans as I am relatively local, it brings up a interesting question...
In Europe for the most part volcanoes are not really a regular part of life but has this made you or your company add a volcano strategy into the disaster recovery plan, if so what has it made you add or change.
I am thinking if / when it happens again I will plan to have alternate travel plans arranged so that if the airspace is shut down at least if I or some one else is stuck some where in Europe can travel be it by boat, train or driving. One other item I have added is my phone system I can't get into much detail but a business who uses the same provider as myself was hammered by calls that lead to the whole system dropping my calls due to there volume, so I am planning on swapping and planning for calls to be diverted to mobile phones or to a call logging system - I am no voip expert so I am asking a VOIP guy to plan that.
What I have not bothered adding to my plan is a solution if it happened locally I have measured the risk and I doubt that a volcano will erupt in England any time soon, and I don't have a server anywhere that is in a sensitive area.
Has it had any impact on you?
This is a thought, I was talking to a few people today one of whom has a friend stuck in Spain due to the Iceland Volcano fiasco that has shut down most of the EU airspace, now while it didn't effect my plans as I am relatively local, it brings up a interesting question...
In Europe for the most part volcanoes are not really a regular part of life but has this made you or your company add a volcano strategy into the disaster recovery plan, if so what has it made you add or change.
I am thinking if / when it happens again I will plan to have alternate travel plans arranged so that if the airspace is shut down at least if I or some one else is stuck some where in Europe can travel be it by boat, train or driving. One other item I have added is my phone system I can't get into much detail but a business who uses the same provider as myself was hammered by calls that lead to the whole system dropping my calls due to there volume, so I am planning on swapping and planning for calls to be diverted to mobile phones or to a call logging system - I am no voip expert so I am asking a VOIP guy to plan that.
What I have not bothered adding to my plan is a solution if it happened locally I have measured the risk and I doubt that a volcano will erupt in England any time soon, and I don't have a server anywhere that is in a sensitive area.
Has it had any impact on you?