Iron Mountain Had No Disaster Plan?

["Fergie" <fergdawg () netzero net>]

Via TechWorld.

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Canadian company Simmons Mattress has switched disaster recover supplier from Iron Mountain to EVault. The reason given 
is that when Simmons was hit with a region-wide power blackout in August, 2003, its disaster recovery (DR) supplier, 
Iron Mountain, was hit by the same blackout.

DR companies store backup tapes in secure repositories. When clients are struck with a disaster that knocks out IT 
facilities they resume operations on backup IT kit using data from the backup tapes. In this case the backup tapes 
could not be supplied because Iron Mountain was struck by the same power outage and had no alternate power supply 
facilities. It rendered the Simmons disaster recovery plan and the ready-and-waiting hot site useless.

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More:
http://www.techworld.com/news/index.cfm?NewsID=5400

- ferg

ps. Iron Mountain is no stranger to foobars:
http://www.informationweek.com/story/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=165701015


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"Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson
 Engineering Architecture for the Internet
 fergdawg () netzero net or fergdawg () sbcglobal net
 ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/


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