October 05, 2008

By Alison Diana

Hurricanes are devastating, but user error and brownouts are equally as damaging to IT infrastructure and destructive to data.As Hurricane Ike demonstrated, proper disaster-recovery strategies are critical to keeping businesses running.

Hurricanes like this year’s Ike and 2005’s Katrina are natural disasters that unfurl in slow-motion. Ike entered the inner Caribbean on Sept. 1, but didn’t make landfall in Galveston, Texas for nearly two weeks. This gave tens of thousands of coast residents time to evacuate to safer areas. But two weeks of preparation wasn’t enough to advert nearly $30 billion in damage to residential homes and businesses.

Fortunately, many businesses yielded to the lessons of previous events and …

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