How Prepared Is Your Business for a Calamity? - Past Disasters
For Japanese firms, with many regional centers, it is a relatively easy task to relocate almost all operations away from Tokyo and satisfy the requirements. Foreign firms operating out of a single base require an alternative site from which to work (as opposed to a data center), and must conduct risk analysis; determining which business operations are necessary for continued survival, and at what level, and which of these must be restored within four hours of a disaster, within 24 hours, three days, etc. For some businesses, such as fund management firms, instant resumption of operations may not be necessary, and an alternative continuity site may be located some distance from Tokyo in a cheaper location. Some operations may even be carried out equally well from an overseas office, but some (e.g. The trading of Japanese Government Bonds) must be carried out from within Japan. Very often, the Service Level Agreements between the IT department and the businesses served by IT play a key role in determining these issues...
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