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Disaster Recovery Management

May 25, 2008 – 6:49 pm

You business depends on your computers. Your employees need their databases, emails, files and applications to do their jobs. Imagine that you come to work on Monday and your database server is gone. How? It doesn’t matter. Let’s say it was transported out of your datacenter by the Romulans. Or, perhaps, the sprinkler system malfunctioned, flooded your datacenter and reduces your database server to a steaming, shorted out pile of junk.