In most locations, weather follows a seasonal pattern – and so too do severe weather events, including hurricanes, wind, snow, tornadoes, forest fires, extreme temperatures and humidity, thunderstorms, floods…and the seasons and extremes are both becoming far more unpredictable.

Organizations establish business continuity plans to define options for maintaining operations through the disruptions caused by severe weather. Due to the nature of data centers – both their sensitivity to atmospheric conditions and the requirement for 24/7/365 availability – these plans are formalized in Emergency Preparedness plans that call for proactive steps as seasons change.

What does your organization do – and what might it do, to better protect data center operations from severe weather? Join us on May 6 for a roundtable discussion including Network peers and Uptime’s Scott Good.