[LINK] FLoods taking out banking infrastructure

[Johann Kruse]

It was after 9/11 that many companies started to think about DR/BCP.
Lots of companies in the World Trade Centre had their backup systems
either in the same building, or in nearby buildings which were also
damaged and/or taken offline.

Depending on the criticality of the systems geographic redundancy is a
good idea.  This used to be a significant cost, but the cloud is
making it easier/cheaper for some workloads.



On 14 January 2011 11:58, Darrell Burkey <darrell.burkey at anu.edu.au> wrote:
> This thread made me wonder how things were handled in New York in 1993
> when the twin towers were destroyed? I've been told that most of the
> critical IT financial systems were back up very quickly.
>
> I've been Googling and found some very interesting reading including a
> book about Disaster Recovery:
>
> http://books.google.com.au/books?id=fX3SeUWUdt8C&pg=PA3&lpg=PA3&dq=twin+tower+it+infrastructure+recovery&source=bl&ots=xQXTkG90j4&sig=BXNvDNZW8m8enHoPyuNa5U82G2k&hl=en&ei=65wvTfi4J4n5cZn20cAH&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=3&ved=0CCYQ6AEwAg#v=onepage&q&f=false
>
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