Message-ID: <30474374.1075855914397.JavaMail.evans@thyme> Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2000 08:03:00 -0800 (PST) From: sally.beck@enron.com To: thomas.gros@enron.com, mary.solmonson@enron.com Subject: Re: Disaster Recovery / Business Resumption for Commodity Logic Cc: tommy.yanowski@enron.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Bcc: tommy.yanowski@enron.com X-From: Sally Beck X-To: Thomas D Gros, Mary Solmonson X-cc: Tommy J Yanowski X-bcc: X-Folder: \Sally_Beck_Dec2000\Notes Folders\'sent mail X-Origin: Beck-S X-FileName: sbeck.nsf Andrew Parsons is currently leading a project to define and quantify the costs for several different alternatives for disaster recovery. We should get an update from him to see if there is anything applicable. There is sheer disaster that impacts many companies/locations (which may require one approach), and then there is nusance stuff (frozen freeways in Houston, etc.) that really requires an updated contact list and set of notification procedures. And then there is system failure and the requisite back up. Thomas D Gros@ENRON 11/14/2000 01:30 PM To: Mary Solmonson/HOU/ECT@ECT cc: Tommy J Yanowski/HOU/ECT@ECT, Sally Beck/HOU/ECT@ECT Subject: Re: Disaster Recovery / Business Resumption for Commodity Logic This topic came up at last week's technical meeting. Several of the potential liabilities of EOL were discussed. Given our ASP model, we have to offer a system even more robust than EOL. In a related area, we began to discuss security, including some of the latest, inexpensive biometrics stuff. Feel free to partcipate in this discussion. Tommy will be the lead on these topics..... Mary Solmonson@ECT 11/14/2000 01:25 PM To: Sally Beck/HOU/ECT@ECT, Thomas D Gros/NA/Enron@Enron cc: Subject: Disaster Recovery / Business Resumption for Commodity Logic One of the calculated risks ENA has lived with is the potential unavailability of systems given a disaster strikes the Houston area such as a hurricane that knocks out power, etc. Have you given any thought on the commodity logic side of providing a hot-backup / fail-over capability from another location ? This could be particularly critical with the Contract Exchange module and might be one assurance customers would want before signing up. For that matter, is there a market in providing disaster recovery / hot-backup capability to companies in high-risk areas? It has traditionally been thought of as too expensive to warrant implementing such a capability for our own purposes. Perhaps there are economies of scale that can be recognized when providing this capability for many.