Chapter 55

Disaster Recovery

Scott R. Ellis and Lauren Collins,    kCura Corporation

1 Introduction

In almost every organization, when a technology-oriented task is at hand, and where no one knows who would handle the request, it typically lands in the information technology department (IT). Whether the task consists of a special, faulty light bulb or a backup for a grease stop in the kitchen sink, organizations rely heavily on the IT department to know the unknown, and to fix anything that breaks.

Disaster recovery (DR), not unlike the plugged sink, is another task that many organizations fail to consider until after much of the technology groundwork has been laid, the corporation is profitable, and suddenly someone realizes that not having a ...

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