04 Dec 2008

December 04, 2008
By Mark Hengel

The business continuity and disaster recovery sector has seen several companies rise to fill the demand. The companies are offering oft-site storage centers for servers that back up information and techniques for ensuring a business can get back online and operational as quickly after a dreaded failure takes place as possible.

The circumstances are always different. For one business, a main server might simply die. For another, an act of God, like a hurricane, might destroy all the records needed to conduct business.

Whatever the cause, more businesses are assessing their business continuity and disaster recovery programs. The programs determine how a business will continue to access information that is vital to operations and is increasingly stored in digital form.

The volume of data a business creates and stores has multiplied in recent years, and computer servers to store the data …

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