MidAmerica Contingency Planning Forum Membership Meeting Presentation

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MidAmerica Contingency Planning ForumMembership
Meeting Presentation

• New Market Workspace Trends
• Workspace Recovery Strategies
• Walt Thomasson, Director
• Rentsys Recovery Services, Inc.
• February 15, 2007
• Bick Group Headquarters

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What is Workspace

• Physical Space
• Technology
• Communications

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Physical Space Working Environment

• Home
• Office
• Vehicle
• Trailer

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Technology to Access Data

• End-User Equipment
• Communication Equipment
• Servers, Data Center Equipment

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Communications Voice and Data

• Lan
• Wireless
• Satellite

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Workspace Strategies

• Ad Hoc No Plan
• Reciprocal Agreement with Another Business
• Internal Location
• Third Party Vendor

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Ad Hoc

• Recover at Time of Event and Determine Whats
  Needed When Crisis Hits

• Positives
• No upfront cost
• Limited travel

• Negatives
• Uncontrolled at-time cost
• Availability of technology
• Unrealistic communication
• expectations
• No testing
• Will not meet auditor
• requirements
• Accountability to Sr.
• Management

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Reciprocal Agreement with Another Business

• Reciprocal Agreement with Another Local or
  Regional Business

• Positives
• Limited upfront cost
• Limited travel
• Lower risk on access to
• space

• Negatives
• Availability of technology
• High cost of voice/data
• communications
• Difficult to do a real-world
• test
• Control and commitment
• Not easily approved by
• auditors
• Accountability to Sr.
• Management

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Internal Location

• Conference Room, Cafeteria, Work From Home,
  Secondary Office Site

• Positives
• Limited upfront cost
• Limited travel
• Internal control
• Will meet most auditor
• requirements
• Low risk on access to
• space

• Negatives
• Availability of technology
• High cost on voice/data
• communications
• Difficult to do a real-world
• test
• Accountability to Sr.
• Management

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Third Party Vendor

• Brick and Mortar Alternative Workspace, Modular
  Building, Mobile Recovery Center

• Negatives
• Higher up-front cost
• Shared access

• Positives
• Contract commitment
• Testable
• Auditor Approved
• Lower at-time cost
• Lower infrastructure cost
• Communications
• Accountability on Vendor

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Third Party Vendor

• Contractual Commitments
• Risk
• Over-Subscription

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Lessons Learned

• People
• Housing
• Families
• Fuel
• Running Water
• Location
• Pandemic

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Question and Answer