When considering business continuity, it is imperative to imagine a real event with real consequences. Questions such as ‘how quickly would things be up and running?’, or ‘where would staff be able to work from?’ and ‘what would they use?’, need to have real definable answers that are backed up by testing and confirmation.
As a firm with a single UK site, Richards Butler is more vulnerable than many. For us the option of some extra server rack space in a branch office and a hot-desk strategy with existing staff at those sites was not an option. We briefly considered housing our disaster recovery solution in our nearest overseas office, which was Paris.
