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Real World Disaster Recovery: A disaster like Hurricane Katrina raises important IT questions

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Overview From the article in IBM Systems Magazine: "Disaster recovery (D/R) planning and testing has been a large part of my career. I've been involved in D/R exercises for a variety of customers, and I was also peripherally involved on a D/R event that happened after Hurricane Katrina. There's a big difference between planned and unplanned D/R events.

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Publisher	IBM	File Format	PDF
Date Published	March 2008	Downloads	10
Format	White Papers
Topics	Disaster Recovery, Infrastructure Management, Data Center, Data Recovery - Security

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