One Step Ahead

In the past, many companies relied on backing up their data to tape, which they also kept at their facility. So a problem that left the facility unavailable also left the data unavailable. DR and BC professionals recommend that companies keep backups in a safe place off site. Recently, with regional disasters such as Hurricane Katrina that impacted a large swath of the South, companies that kept their tapes off site, but within the region, lost their backups.