Re: Disaster Recovery / Business Resumption for Commodity Logic

Andrew Parsons is currently leading a project to define and quantify the
costs for several different alternatives for disaster recovery. We should
get an update from him to see if there is anything applicable. There is
sheer disaster that impacts many companies/locations (which may require one
approach), and then there is nusance stuff (frozen freeways in Houston, etc.)
that really requires an updated contact list and set of notification
procedures. And then there is system failure and the requisite back up.

Thomas D Gros@ENRON
11/14/2000 01:30 PM
To: Mary Solmonson/HOU/ECT@ECT
cc: Tommy J Yanowski/HOU/ECT@ECT, Sally Beck/HOU/ECT@ECT
Subject: Re: Disaster Recovery / Business Resumption for Commodity Logic

This topic came up at last week's technical meeting. Several of the
potential liabilities of EOL were discussed. Given our ASP model, we have to
offer a system even more robust than EOL. In a related area, we began to
discuss security, including some of the latest, inexpensive biometrics
stuff. Feel free to partcipate in this discussion. Tommy will be the lead on
these topics.....

Mary Solmonson@ECT
11/14/2000 01:25 PM
To: Sally Beck/HOU/ECT@ECT, Thomas D Gros/NA/Enron@Enron
cc:

Subject: Disaster Recovery / Business Resumption for Commodity Logic

One of the calculated risks ENA has lived with is the potential
unavailability of systems given a disaster strikes the Houston area such as a
hurricane that knocks out power, etc.

Have you given any thought on the commodity logic side of providing a
hot-backup / fail-over capability from another location ? This could be
particularly critical with the Contract Exchange module and might be one
assurance customers would want before signing up.

For that matter, is there a market in providing disaster recovery /
hot-backup capability to companies in high-risk areas? It has traditionally
been thought of as too expensive to warrant implementing such a capability
for our own purposes. Perhaps there are economies of scale that can be
recognized when providing this capability for many.