First Disaster Recovery centre for the West of Ireland opens

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The first disaster recovery centre in the west of Ireland has been set up by a new local firm called Work Area Recovery Solutions. The WARS centre, located at Ennis Information Age Park, has resilient and redundant telecoms connectivity, back-up power, and computer hardware. It provides accommodation and services which facilitate business recovery in the event of any unplanned business interruption and will allow client companies to be back in business within hours of being hit by a disaster.

The new centre gives businesses in the western half of the country local access to professional disaster recovery services. “This new work area recovery centre is long overdue. It provides a very valuable back-up for business continuity support in the event of business disruption,” said Pat Hannon, IT Manager of Avocent International, which is based in Shannon. Hannon is one of the centre’s first clients and he endorses the opening of the new centre. “It also gives publicly-traded companies extra assurance and security that they can conform to corporate governance regulations outlined in Sarbanes-Oxley (US) and Turnbull (EU) requirements, which states that they must produce timely, accurate and complete corporate financial reports regardless of any type of business interruptions,” said Hannon.

The new WARS centre is fully equipped to accommodate any size of company in a disaster scenario. Gerry Joyce, the centre’s technical director is already working with a number of other companies to configure it to suit their needs. He said the business community in the West of Ireland has been anxiously awaiting the establishment of a local solution for work area recovery.

“Prudent enterprises are becoming ever-more conscious of the need to have a reliable business continuity plan. The most important aspect of a business continuity plan is that it is tested beforehand. The work area recovery site contract has test-days built-in, to ensure that clients have a fully functional tested solution in place. This allows client companies to be back in business within hours of any disaster,” said Joyce.

WARS is a new company formed by the Directors of LinkResQ, an enterprise risk management company based in the Westpark Business Campus, Shannon. The new centre opens just as Fine Gael has backed the campaign to keep Aer Lingus flying from Shannon to Heathrow airport.

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