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September 10, 2015

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# Seven Rules of IT Disaster Recovery

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How to protect your company, your customers, and yourself with IT BCDR?   
  
 The concept of IT Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery (BCDR) is not new; however actual implementation varies across solutions, vendors, and industries. It may look easy on the surface: plan, backup, replicate, and test. Sounds simple, right? Not so fast. The devil, as they say, is in the details. Let’s take a look.

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