BSI Hurricane Irma Update

[Jeffrey Barnard]

Our corporate headquarters in Bradenton, FL experienced hurricane force
winds and rain, yet did not have a moment of down time. It does help being
in a new building. New construction that meets and exceeds the latest
hurricane building codes in Florida.

Our development center in Longwood, FL did experience a power outage.
However, our backup generator quickly kicked in and we had power and A.C.
until Duke Energy restored power 2 days later. Internet availability was
spotty, but usable, for a few days after the storm and our high standard of
technical support was unaffected by the storm.

Our remote data center is located in a building built to CAT 3 hurricane
standards. Cat 3 is winds up to 130MHP. In fact, it never lost power or
internet communications during the storm even though the eye of Irma passed
directly over the building. Tony was even in the data center at the time
watching as the eye passed over. Even if we had lost power, the building
has automatic generator backup power with 14 days of fuel on site. Probably
why the building is shared with other large telecommunications companies.
Anyone interested in a secure data center or DR/Backup site should contact
the Prozgroup, Inc. (http://pzg.support)

We value the VSE customer. Implementation of DR plans, already in place,
were executed without problems. All our locations remained available during
and after hurricane IRMA made her way through Florida and the Eastern part
of the US.

Regards,
Jeff Barnard
Barnard Software, Inc.

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[Mick Poil]

In the UK we are fully prepared for (almost) all eventualities:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/road-and-rail-transport/9891089/From-the-archive-British-Rail-blames-wrong-type-of-snow-for-delays.html

In the event of snow, I fully expect my workplace car park to be closed as per normal due to health and safety considerations. It is rather unfortunate that it is in the middle of the countryside, and hence access by car/bus is the only way to get there unless you walk or bicycle, which for me being 62 miles away is a bit difficult.

:-)