GemaTech offers telephone-recover business continuity solution

Published 18 January 2006

California company offers a way for businesses to retain records of all their calls in case a disaster destroys their communication networks

San Diego, California-based GemaTech designs and develops telephone-business continuity and voice recording products. The services offered by the company would be useful in the event of a business communication breakdown, which could be the result of fire, flood, terrorism attack, or an influenza pandemic. “There has been a growing awareness of the need for risk management over the last 10 years which was emphasized by 9/11 in the U.S. and latterly the underground explosions on 7 July,” says the company’s Guernsey-born CEO Graham Chick. “It brought it closer to home. Up until now people have taken the recovery of telecoms for granted.” The company’s solution can instantaneously and seamlessly recover 100 percent of a company’s incoming calls by intelligently rerouting them to literally anybody working anywhere.

The company’s U.K. operation is based in Basingstoke, but its fourteen-strong workforce practices the company philosophy: Most worked from other locations.

-read more at GemaTech Web site; and see this story about the company’s CEO