By Lee Johns

I live in Houston and this week we had an event that really brought home the importance of a good disaster recovery & backup strategy for storage. Hurricane Ike came through and took down the power to more than two million people. In Galveston businesses had over nine feet of water in them but even 70 Miles in land people are still without power five days after the storm. A friend of mine has been sitting guard over the generator powering the datacenter for his small business. The whole office has been standing guard to ensure it does not get stolen and keeps theire Datacenter up and running. They are a services business and have over 30 customers relying on them. You never know when a disaster will hit. Now may be a good time to reevaluate your strategy.