On Wednesday, faced with a choice of backing up operations for a day and forcing dairies to dump their milk, the company chose to operate and pay tens of thousands of dollars per hour in penalties for using power, said Mr. Prince, the chief operating officer.
Others are building back-up operations in Brooklyn or outside the city, dispersing their staff for "business-continuity reasons"—ie, in case of another attack.
AeroThai said it had back-up operations to ensure no disruption to air travel if its control centre was shut down.
Sorting this out required "extensive manual operations", the report notes dryly.Digital continuity would become even trickier if the back-up operation were to include more complex services.
However, Pakistan's Foreign Minister, Hina Rabbani Khar, told Ms Clinton yesterday that the strike negated all progress in improving the strained alliance between the two countries and confirmed that in response Pakistan had closed two border crossings used by Nato to supply forces in Afghanistan, and expected the US to vacate an airbase used to back up drone operations.
Thousands of people are out of work and BP is scaling back their clean up operations because workers in bright yellow hazmat suits will only remind the public that the Gulf disaster is ongoing and cleanup will take years.
The Moldovan police went directly to the FBI, who backed up their operations.
Companies in many industries are facing higher insurance costs and are devoting large amounts of money to security and backing up computer operations.
"With the strike now ending, we must waste no time in getting the nation's busiest port complex's operations back up to speed".
In addition, he said, companies looking to back up trading or clearing operations in Manhattan have several choices that can be used singly or in some combination.
