How to explain Business Continuity to your kids

Your data is gone. Your data is missing. You wanted to retire. You wanted to go fishing. What makes you think you can dream about fish. Your CIO warned you there'd be days like this. No ledgers, no spreadsheets no Windows, no DOS. It's times like this that make cookies toss. You buy expensive software and very big lines, with hopes to avoid publicity litigation and fines. You went to a conference to learn the newest technique from some little propeller-head, some little geek. You learned to replicate and mitigate, to backup then restore. To bring your people, plans and pizza galore! You practice, test and exercise. Drink coffee, soda and eat fries. Your User, DBA, Owner, and Boss will call CNN if data is lost Database, Image Copies, Full and Incremental. We have so many tapes I hope you'll be gentle. Call Microsoft, call Oracle, call IBM and HP, with hopes their trained experts have had more sleep than me!

(God bless you Dr. Seuss wherever you are!)