GemaTech Technology Blog » telephone system http://www.gematech.com/blog Changing the way we work Tue, 07 Sep 2010 09:05:07 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8 en hourly 1 Business Continuity: Why Pay twice? http://www.gematech.com/blog/2009/08/27/business-continuity-why-pay-twice/ http://www.gematech.com/blog/2009/08/27/business-continuity-why-pay-twice/#comments Thu, 27 Aug 2009 16:26:12 +0000 admin http://www.gematech.com/blog/?p=212 How many organisations have paid for a buisness continuity solution for their inbound telecoms, only to find that when disaster strikes, it is not sufficient for their needs, forcing them to sepnd again on a fit-for-purpose upgrade?

Undertaking some research, I have discovered that there is in fact a psychological reason, known as ‘optimism bias’, for why we tend to think that such a negative disruptive event is unlikely to happen ‘to us’.

For my full article on the subject of insufficient telecoms recovery planning click here.

Karen Jones

]]> http://www.gematech.com/blog/2009/08/27/business-continuity-why-pay-twice/feed/ 0 World Health Organisation on brink of declaring global pandemic http://www.gematech.com/blog/2009/06/11/world-health-organisation-on-brink-of-declaring-global-pandemic/ http://www.gematech.com/blog/2009/06/11/world-health-organisation-on-brink-of-declaring-global-pandemic/#comments Thu, 11 Jun 2009 09:20:56 +0000 admin http://www.gematech.com/blog/?p=14 _45901430_007475615-1The H1N1 swine flu virus has spread to 74 countries, with a sharp increase in reported cases in Australia. The UN have called an emergency meeting to discuss the imapct of an imminent declaration by the World Health Organisation to raise the level from 5 to 6, which would see the world in its first global pandemic since 1968. A pandemic which killed around one million people. The disease is classed as a pandemic when it has spread from human to human when widespread within two regions of the world. If a pandemic is declared, governments could quite quickly call for travel bans and school closures, a move which could in theory start bringing organisations to a standstill. It seems that time is running out for those who have not made sufficient business continuity plans to cope with mass illness or to facilitate flexible working options which enable healthy employees to continue working from home or other isolated location. The reliance upon our country’s telephone system for communication will be massive. For those people at the leading edge of technology I wonder whether IP telephony will stand the test of huge increases in residential broadband use? Especially when the children are at home because the schools are closed..

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