Looking way out over the hood is part of business planning, and the emerging changes in our physical world certainly play into that. If you think 200 years is too far away to have implications for your business, consider the implications of rising water levels along much of the world’s coastlines, not to mention the effects of even slightly warming water temperatures on hurricane strength. So the long-term pursuit of alternate locations and data centers with grid and infrastructure dependence and all the bricks and mortar of business as usual start to take on unusual importance. And that’s way out over the hood.
Predictions are that the edges of weather will get more extreme and frequent as minor changes in ocean temperature and ozone coverage upset our very sensitive tether to this place. That means more damaging hurricanes, more epic floods, more intense drought, more weather that wreaks havoc and creates chaos. What sort of forecast do you see for your organization?
Hope for the Best, Plan for the Worst
We are entering hurricane season, a period of prediction, prognostication, and prayerful planning. Weather has no conscience and no political affiliation, and it strikes without emotion. Because we do have a conscience and emotional connections, we most often hear the stories of the ill-prepared. The trailer parks in tornado alley that almost evaporates, the coastal communities that disappear from the landscape, the towns swallowed by the rivers that run through them, the lives and businesses devastated.
What we don’t hear as often are the stories of businesses that developed disaster recovery plans and established alternate locations that allowed their people and their data to continue operations in the face of natural disasters that now seem increasingly inevitable. ICS plays a role in a lot of those stories through disaster recovery planning.
Call us today to learn more. Our plans and strategies to keep you from getting blown away will blow you away. Well, not literally, of course.
