What Hurricane Sandy Taught IT About Disaster Preparedness

StewBeans writes: The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Climate Prediction Center is calling for calmer than normal storm activity this hurricane season, which runs through Nov. 30. But it's likely that data centers and IT companies in NYC are still taking disaster preparedness seriously. Three years ago, Hurricane Sandy devastated homes, businesses, transportation, and communication in New York, and taught many companies (the hard way) how to keep the lights on when the lights were literally off for weeks on end. Alphonzo Albright, former CIO of the Office of Information Technology in New York City, gives a behind-the-scenes account of what life and business were like in the dark, cold days following Hurricane Sandy in NYC. He also shares tips for other tech leaders to create their own Business Continuity Plan in case this year's storms take a turn for the worse.

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Re:What it should have taught

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In the days of corporate douche baggery, corporate recovery plans are like service and support are like reliability and security. Corporations spend more on executive bonuses when executives spends little or nothing on those things because bigger profits now. Then it all fucks up and the executives wanders off with those bonuses and a golden parachutes, this is not by accident this is because they do not give a fuck about anything but more greed now. You hire psychopaths as corporate executives and that is what you will end up with every single time.