Disaster Recovery Update 1/13/10 - National Retail Bank; Naples, FL
Posted by Matt Spada on Thu, Jan 21, 2010
Company: National Retail Bank
Location: Naples, FL
Disaster declared due to: Power Outage
The southeast region of a national retail bank became a member of Agility Recovery Solutions in August 2009, protecting over 100 branch offices in the state of Florida. Nearly five months later on January 11, 2010, the bank put its roadmap to recovery in motion and notified Agility of a power outage affecting its Naples branch. A car had crashed into a nearby transformer which supplied power to the bank, and the local utilities company could not ensure power would be restored the following morning. At 9 pm, branch management requested a generator to be mobilized to accommodate customers the following morning. By 6 am the following morning, Agility had delivered a fully functioning generator to the site. Agility's Erin Bear talks about the experience:
