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Business as usual for ANS Group thanks to Cisco
Tue 5th Jan 10 - 11:40
Despite only 2 out of 85 staff making it into the office today due to the Snow its business as usual for ANS Group.
Thanks to Cisco and its Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) staff are able to access all the systems they require to work from home including the Cisco Telephony System which allow users to log in on soft phones on their laptops just as if they were in the office.
Managing Director, Paul Sweeney who battled for 2 hours to cover 8 miles early this morning to open the office said:
"It's a great time to practice what we preach, we invoked our Business Continuity Plan this morning at 7.30am communicating to all office based staff to log on from home and work as normal, all systems and accessible and all DDI's and hunt groups work as normal".
Manchester City Centre saw it's worst snow conditions in decades with over 6 inches of snow in the centre, effectively crippling business just as they get started in the New Year.
Sweeney said:
"As many of office staff use Virtual Desktops is very simple and secure to connect via a broadband connection and continue to work"
When asked how he was going to get home tonight he said:
"That's a great question, to which I have no answer yet, I've checked the Kitchen and there plenty of Milk and Sugar though!"
ANS even made the BBC evening news, watch the following video clip.