It’s the one phone call that any company director dreads – to be awoken in the middle of the night to be told that your company’s premises are on fire.
This is what happened to Craig van Zyl, Financial Director of Cazenove, a leading independent investment bank which provides corporate finance advice, distributes securities and researches and manages funds on behalf of a wide range of clients worldwide.
“It was the 6th of January when I got the call to say that our Dunkeld premises were on fire. I rushed over there to find that the entire building had been gutted by the fire,” says van Zyl.
Cazenove MD Tony Lederlie spoke to van Zyl telephonically asking him to save a couple of important files from his office.
“I looked around me and couldn’t even find an office,” says van Zyl, “let alone find any files. The fire had destroyed everything within the building.”
Thankfully, Cazenove had a disaster recovery contract in place with ContinuitySA.
“Our IT team immediately went out to ContinuitySA’s Midrand premises and started working on our IT back-up systems. “The company was up and trading by early afternoon on the same day using the facilities at ContinuitySA,” says van Zyl.
Van Zyl praised the ContinuitySA team for their professionalism. “The ContinuitySA team immediately assisted us and went the extra mile to ensure that our systems were up and running in the quickest timeframe,” concludes van Zyl.
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