COMBATING HURRICANE SANDY
Hurricane Sandy, which has rattled the East Coast of the US, has its impact on the Indian IT industry as well. Several top IT firms, which have operations on the coast, have set up war rooms at their headquarters to keep in touch with their employees and monitor the situation.
A good number of Indian IT firms have shut offices temporarily to ward off damages as the cyclone hit the coast. Though it is not expected to cause a financial impact, the cyclone has made the firms spend considerable time and energy in safeguarding their facilities and employees and maintaining continuity work on the clients’ sites.
“Yes, it did have an impact on us. If not directly, the hurricane has impacted our clients, particularly in areas like New Jersey (the US). Power outages could impact their operations. We are closely monitoring the situation and are in touch with our employees. But the good thing is that the whole (Government) machinery has been kept on vigil three days in advance,” C.P. Gurnani, Chief Executive designate of Mahindra Satyam-Tech Mahindra Satyam combine, said.
Cognizant decided to shut its offices on the East Coast on October 29 and 30. It has two offices on the East Coast — at Teaneck and Bridgewater.
“In view of Hurricane Sandy, as a precautionary measure, our Teaneck and Bridgewater offices will be closed on Monday, October 29. All associates in the potential impact zone have been advised to closely monitor local news stations and take sufficient precautions to ensure their safety. We are closely watching the situation and are prepared with business continuity measures to deal with any emergency,” a Cognizant spokesperson said.
Several top companies such as Mahindra Satyam and HCL have activated their Business Continuity Groups that take care of critical functioning of the company in times of crises and otherwise, flagging the natural calamity and the relevant response measures. “We are closely monitoring the situation on the US East Coast in the light of Hurricane Sandy and working with local authorities to ensure the safety of our employees and their families. We have also activated business continuity procedures in collaboration with our customers,” a HCL spokesperson said.
Ganesh Natarajan, Chief Executive Officer and Vice-Chairman of Zensar Technologies, said it had temporarily shut its Manhattan and Princeton sales and marketing offices. He, however, doesn’t see any immediate threat financially.
A TCS spokesperson maintained that owing to its strong business continuity plans, customer processes are not expected to be disrupted. “All our associates have been advised to stay safe and be indoors. Owing to our strong business continuity plan customer processes are not expected to be disrupted,” he said.
(with inputs from New Delhi, Mumbai and Chennai bureaus)
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OCTOBER 26, 2012: "Indian, American navies carrying out joint drill : For the first time, navies of India and the US are carrying out joint drill to save sailors stuck in submarines during mid-sea mishaps off the coast of Mumbai in an exercise codenamed INDIAEX 2012 [PTI, October 26, 2012]".
I had objected to the agreement for U.S. help for submarine rescue, on the grounds below, in the past which may have been responsible for the "huge delay in setting up the requisite infrastructure needed for it. [Times of India, October 26, 2012] "
The essence of submarine operations is keeping their locations secret; the above "joint drill" gives ample opportunities to the Americans to get acoustic and other signatures of Indian submarines and put devices on them to be able to track them and this is the purpose of this "joint drill" -- to render Indian submarines worthless and subject to destruction by the Americans at any time and deprive India of any ability to use submarine-based nuclear weapons. The Indian army, air force and navy are already subject to being disabled and destroyed by the Americans in other ways I have described (such as in 'Indian Air Force Pilots' Murder' : IndianAirForcePilotsMurderDOTblogspotDOTcom ) and this adds another modality to it which will persist beyond the nuclear destruction of New Delhi and of RAW and the traitor army, air force and navy chiefs, etc. The coast-to-coast destruction of the United States that will follow the nuclear destruction of New Delhi, Washington and New York will require all the platforms India can bring to the task and the sabotage of these platforms will stop with the destruction of New Delhi, Washington and New York; till then the Indian and American governments will continue to race to destroy India's weapons platforms.
OCTOBER 19, 2012: Niggers of the Indian media, such as NDTV, are covering the U.S. presidential debates as if it is the president of India who is being elected. Uninterrupted coverage of the one and a half hour long debate plus an hour before the start of the debate and an hour after the debate ended and the whole performance repeated over and over with endless analyses of the minutiae of the issues and styles and likes and dislikes and what not -- boy, these niggers really know who their masters are but shouldn't they be covering the Indian who is going to carry out the coast-to-coast destruction of this number one enemy country, instead (see below)? Well, they wouldn't be nigger slaves -- millions of whom will be killed in the nuclear destruction of New Delhi -- if they had this much sense. As I have said below, India's media, government and citizenry at large are willing participants in CIA-RAW's crimes against me and against India and deserve to be killed in their billions. IndiasTraitorGovtAndMediaDOTblogspotDOTcom
Satish Chandra
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