Disaster Recovery Journal

The Oil Spill in the Gulf of Mexico is a horrible natural disaster that the area might never recover from…  This much is known.  So many people have asked why we haven’t written anything on our blog about it and why we aren’t using it when it comes to business interruption scenarios.  The answer is simple, it is such a massive incident that most people can’t wrap their heads around it and would simply say “we aren’t a petroleum company, so it doesn’t apply”.  While that is true, I was reading an article today on the fact that BP share prices have dropped for the second day in a row.  Half way down this article, there is a perfect Business Continuity/Disaster Recovery piece that ties back to handling the media that has been written about here and here.  Read the following and see how it all ties together:

On the corporate front, BP shareholders would prefer to sacrifice the company’s Chairman Carl-Henric Svanberg rather than CEO Hayward over the ongoing crisis, the Times of London reported in its Wednesday edition.

It has taken some time and a few more meetings than you’d like to remember, but you’ve done it. You’ve secured the budget needed to actually get your company set up with a proven Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity Plan. But now what? You’ve promised the “powers that be” that you can deliver a DR implementation quickly, easily and seamlessly. And you cannot go over budget.

Well, take a look at your existing corporate infrastructure. What software tools are you currently using? How skilled are team members at learning a new piece of software? And don’t forget the deal-maker – “must be simple and on budget”. Chances are if you’re like many of the companies we do business with, you’re running a large chunk of Microsoft software. In fact pretty strong chance that you’re already using Microsoft SharePoint to collaboratively manage task and information within your organization.