goes off to Iron Mountain as soon as it is completed.
There is a set of rules in place so we have at least the last three sets of each off-site in secure storage. I don't see anywhere
in this plan where we have included the round trip shipping cost of backup media, nor the turn around time it would take to
have the media flown to India and do a full restoration in the event of a disaster.”
The only sound in the room was that of the ventilation system when Margret finished speaking. Margret looked Kathryn directly
in the eye and waited for a response. She knew there wasn't one, but wanted to see the tap dance. After waiting for a minute
while Kathryn began looking through some documentation saying she was sure they had it covered and others sputtering assurances,
Margret dropped her other bomb.
“In order to qualify for FDIC insurance, we cannot have a recovery period which is longer than 12 hours. The flight from the
closest coast to India is over 14 hours, and that doesn't include restoration or testing time.”
Nothing like hitting someone with the 2x4 of a federal regulation right between the eyes after you've eaten their food, thought Margret.
Kathryn made a mental note to never offer Margret tainted nookie again when trying to coddle her. This girl didn't play slow
pitch or croquet, she was fast-pitch hardball all the way. The “barely old enough to shave” crowd was no help to her now.
Time to cry uncle.
“I'm sure we addressed this issue at a high level, but now that the project is moving forward, perhaps we need to get into
more detail and ensure there will be no problems going forward,” said Kathryn with a slight emphasis on “going forward.” If
you are free this evening I would like to schedule a meeting with yourself and our Data Storage & Recovery Team.
Margret was pretty certain that “team” was going to be formed about five minutes after this meeting got over, but she responded
saying that she would have to check her calendar once back in the office. They would not be able to get into too much detail
without Margret bringing in her existing systems managers because they would have to sign off on any BRP (business recovery
plan) put into place.
There was a special spring to Margret's step when she left Big Four Consulting that day. She knew very well that she had no
plans tonight other than staying late to get caught up on some paperwork. Had Kathryn bothered to do any of her own research
when putting the plan together, she would have been able to shoot Margret out of the saddle. Yes, there was a rule claiming
you couldn't have outages and a catastrophic event had to be recovered from inside of 12 hours, but as long as your secondary
data center could handle the full business load you had quite a bit of time to get your primary data center restored. Margret
simply wanted the same four-star treatment upper management got.
***
Nedim had not heard from John since he sent the fax. In an odd way they had been best friends. The past three weeks had been
mentally grueling for Nedim. His cousin and his friend were still living with him. Umar, who was using the cover of being
his cousin from Saudi Arabia, had even joined his mosque and gotten invited into the private discussions on the Holy Quran
with Nedim's cleric. The only time he was actually “free” of them was when he went to work. He dared not attempt to contact
John again, but he really needed to know John had gotten away. Nedim was certain he would not live long enough to see John
again.
A heightened interest in the email exchanges from a pair of addresses had Nedim worried. He could tell from the content of
the messages that something was going to happen soon. He had even tried to not translate all of the messages. Soon, the men
stopped asking him for translations, they just had him printing out the results. While they still had some things copied off
to CD, most of the messages were
There is a set of rules in place so we have at least the last three sets of each off-site in secure storage. I don't see anywhere
in this plan where we have included the round trip shipping cost of backup media, nor the turn around time it would take to
have the media flown to India and do a full restoration in the event of a disaster.”
The only sound in the room was that of the ventilation system when Margret finished speaking. Margret looked Kathryn directly
in the eye and waited for a response. She knew there wasn't one, but wanted to see the tap dance. After waiting for a minute
while Kathryn began looking through some documentation saying she was sure they had it covered and others sputtering assurances,
Margret dropped her other bomb.
“In order to qualify for FDIC insurance, we cannot have a recovery period which is longer than 12 hours. The flight from the
closest coast to India is over 14 hours, and that doesn't include restoration or testing time.”
Nothing like hitting someone with the 2x4 of a federal regulation right between the eyes after you've eaten their food, thought Margret.
Kathryn made a mental note to never offer Margret tainted nookie again when trying to coddle her. This girl didn't play slow
pitch or croquet, she was fast-pitch hardball all the way. The “barely old enough to shave” crowd was no help to her now.
Time to cry uncle.
“I'm sure we addressed this issue at a high level, but now that the project is moving forward, perhaps we need to get into
more detail and ensure there will be no problems going forward,” said Kathryn with a slight emphasis on “going forward.” If
you are free this evening I would like to schedule a meeting with yourself and our Data Storage & Recovery Team.
Margret was pretty certain that “team” was going to be formed about five minutes after this meeting got over, but she responded
saying that she would have to check her calendar once back in the office. They would not be able to get into too much detail
without Margret bringing in her existing systems managers because they would have to sign off on any BRP (business recovery
plan) put into place.
There was a special spring to Margret's step when she left Big Four Consulting that day. She knew very well that she had no
plans tonight other than staying late to get caught up on some paperwork. Had Kathryn bothered to do any of her own research
when putting the plan together, she would have been able to shoot Margret out of the saddle. Yes, there was a rule claiming
you couldn't have outages and a catastrophic event had to be recovered from inside of 12 hours, but as long as your secondary
data center could handle the full business load you had quite a bit of time to get your primary data center restored. Margret
simply wanted the same four-star treatment upper management got.
***
Nedim had not heard from John since he sent the fax. In an odd way they had been best friends. The past three weeks had been
mentally grueling for Nedim. His cousin and his friend were still living with him. Umar, who was using the cover of being
his cousin from Saudi Arabia, had even joined his mosque and gotten invited into the private discussions on the Holy Quran
with Nedim's cleric. The only time he was actually “free” of them was when he went to work. He dared not attempt to contact
John again, but he really needed to know John had gotten away. Nedim was certain he would not live long enough to see John
again.
A heightened interest in the email exchanges from a pair of addresses had Nedim worried. He could tell from the content of
the messages that something was going to happen soon. He had even tried to not translate all of the messages. Soon, the men
stopped asking him for translations, they just had him printing out the results. While they still had some things copied off
to CD, most of the messages were
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