Blackout shines light on need for business continuity plan

摘要

It wasn't until the lights went out in August of 2003 that many companies were able to see the folly of their non-existent, inadequate or long-shelved and forgotten business continuity and disaster recovery plan. When the blackout hit on Aug. 14, 50 million Canadians and Americans were left without electricity. Canadian businesses lost some 18.9 million work hours and the country's gross domestic product took a 0.7 per cent hit, according to a report by the U.S.Canada Power System Outage Task Force. This is not surprising, considering a recent survey of business decision makers across Ontario found that 28 per cent of organizations do not have any business continuity plan. The survey was conducted by Leger Marketing on behalf of Fusepoint and Agility Recovery Solutions.