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Visible Breakthrough: Mac Papers, Inc. Enhances Operational Readiness

Overview The 40-year-old Florida-based Mac Papers, Inc. is the largest supplier of printing papers in the southeastern United States. The company wanted to improve its business continuity position. Mac Papers, Inc. purchased two Unisys ClearPath Plus Libra 520 servers - locating one at headquarters for primary processing and the other within a day's drive for disaster recovery purposes. The new solution supports Mac Papers' business requirement to resume full operations within 24 hours of a potential business interruption.

Further White Paper Details
Publisher	Unisys	File Format	HTML
Date Published	June 2007
Format	Case Studies
Topics	Mainframes

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Channel:
Security Strategy

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Servers
Tags:
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Publisher:
EMC

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Publisher:
DataFlux

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