Disaster Recovery Work Areas - What Are They?

When disaster strikes, quite literally, where canmeals as required by the client. There is a fully
you go to recover your business' workflowfitted 1950 replica cafe, complete with fully
without sacrificing data or profit? Whether it berestored 1947 Wurlitza juke box with original 78
the destruction of a facility (9/11), floodedrecords and sleeping rooms for key personal who
(Nashville) or without power or plumbing (Katrina)have to remain on site at all times - some federal
off site work areas are crucial in ensuringclients mandate that their people have to remain
continued business success and safety in theon site as long as their data is there (you don't
more dire of scenarios.want to have to sleep on a sofa or in a chair).
The work area suites at a company likeThe work area facilities are used in conjunction
Recovery Point offers each consist of 100with the hot site computing equipment. Clients
workplaces, with 48 inch wide desk in cubicle,backup data is restored to the servers, which are
ergonomic chair, PC, multiline Alcatel phone, underintegrated into the work area suites so that client
desk filing cabinet and assorted office supplies. Allpersonnel can access their data seamlessly and
of the workspaces in all of the facilities are ofcontinue operations. In these hastened and dire
identical specifications - important if for somesituations it is vitally important that they have
reason the personal have to move from locationaccess to facilities that not only allow them to
to location. Each suite is equipped with a modernkeep the company functioning, but do so in a way
kitchen area with stainless steel appliances, coffeethat reduces as much of the stress as possible
maker, microwave, fridge/freezer, sink andand allows them to be as productive as they can.
storage units so that personnel can makeCreature comforts are king in each and every
refreshments and snacks whenever they want.one of our designated work areas.
There are multiple restrooms and showersI'll leave you with this one quick anecdote about
adjacent to the suites. These amenities are inthe genuine value of fully-functional work areas.
place to make sure that regardless of theDuring the late 1990's Norwegian Cruise lines had
situation someone can always stay on the siteto evacuate their offices in Florida due to a heavy
and lead a fully serviced lifestyle.hurricane - the workers in the NCL call center also
All of the suites have multiple secure offices thathad to evacuate their homes and families. NCL at
can be used for private meetings In addition,the time was taking 13,000 calls per day for
there are specially equipped strategy rooms withcruise bookings from all over the world - that
smart TVs, specially designed chairs and desksrelated to a loss of revenue of $1.5M for every
with multiple associated data feeds to each one.hour the phones were not answered. Their
These rooms accommodate up to six people at arecovery provider accommodated them in a
time and are used to support real time voice,facility in Atlanta, re-routed the call traffic via an
data and white board communication to any otherACD (Automatic Call Distribution) switch, hooked
location. Outside of the suites there are commonup the hot site recovery servers with the clients
comfortable lounge areas with full cateringdata to the call agents - and NCL were back in
facilities, vending machines, and wide screen TVs.business. Whether your company is large or small,
Recovery Point offers a wide menu of mealthe benefit of competent, fully adaptable
choices from local establishments and will bring inrecovery work areas is undeniably crucial.