Disaster Recovery

Today at work we had a Disaster Recovery (DR) simulation. Each department has a DR plan. The DR site is located in Olathe, KS. Basically it's an exercise where we pretend there has been a disaster and everyone must follow their recovery plan. For Theresa and me....this means we get to spend the day at the DR site with our boss, Greg. This was all too exciting for us. The disaster call came this morning at 6:10am. We met up and went straight to the DR site in Olathe, KS. Following our plan, we performed the tests of our applications to make sure they would work in a real disaster. It was crazy at the DR site...there were about 150 Commerce employees there all doing their specific disaster recovery plan.

As you see, Theresa is hard at work.



Stephanie, Theresa, and Greg recovering from the disaster. It was a hard job but someone had to do it!




After working hard at DR, (I'm going to get technical here) we headed to the Diebold warehouse for a demo on the new ENA. This is a new component that we will be piloting for our ATMs. In layman terms, it is a new & improved cash depositor for the ATMs. Even though Theresa busted their chops the minute we got there, they still offered to treat us for lunch. So we got to join in Diebold's infamous Friday lunches at Wallaby's. We always hear about these lunches and I'm sure the only thing that was different today was they (Diebold) could not talk about us (Commerce) they had to talk to us!!! hehehehe

We finally made our way back to the office around 2:00pm. Needless to say, we didn't get much work done today. But that's okay because it will all be there waiting for us on Monday. Until then though, we get to enjoy our weekend.