So, are you ready to fend off a Jellyfish attack? While this may seem like a silly question there is truth in it. I was reading the news this morning about an organic fish farm off the coast of Ireland that was besieged by marauding Jellyfish not once but twice.
This got me to thinking.
What is the state of your disaster recovery plan? Have you been testing and perfecting your plan or have you succumbed to the tick box mentality to fend off the hoards of auditors that pace to and fro at the edge of the moat?
From Spiegel Online:
The first attack was like a Biblical plague: Billions of purplish pelagia noctiluca, or mauve stingers, drifted over cages of salmon in Glenarm Bay and stung to death about 120,000 fish. Estimated damage to the organic farm — which sells salmon to high-end caterers in Britain — was over £1 million ($2 million, €1.4 million). The jellyfish wiped out the company’s mature harvest a month before Christmas.
The UK’s chief fisheries officer at the Department of Agriculture, Mark McCoughan, told the Belfast Telegraph last Thursday that Northern Salmon would now have “no cash flow” until autumn 2008, when young fish at another site, Red Bay, were big enough for the market. By Saturday, though, the Red Bay stock had been killed off by jellyfish too.
So, this unfortunate disaster has wiped out their cash flow. A strong case for having your DR plan in order wouldn’t you say?
Shit Life happens while you’re making plans.
[tags]Jellyfish Attack, Disaster Recovery, Disaster Planning[/tags]
