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Fine Tuning Corporate Data Protection: Are We Ready?

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After Hurricane Katrina, businesses pursued disaster recovery (DR) and business continuation strategies in earnest. The result is many more companies today are better prepared than they were two years ago. However, some of the traditional DR pitfalls remain.

This is because disaster recovery plans operate on the back burner when everything is going well and take center stage when the company is flung headlong into disaster. Most of the time, DR does not gain the ear of C-level executives until a business interruption strikes. The planning and the execution of data recoveries are orchestrated by mid-level personnel in IT and business operations. The bottom line: disaster recovery plans operate like "insurance policies" that only become valuable when a company runs into disaster — although industry regulators, legal experts and others have now placed new demands on sites.

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