Neither rain nor sleet nor .... hurricanes

摘要

It was august of last year, and the Naples, Fla., headquarters of Global Berry Farms, a grower and shipper of bush berries, was directly in the path of a hurricane named Charley. That concerned MIS manager Brian Clancy because he hadn't yet figured out a cost-effective way to keep the company's e-mail up and running without interruption. E-mail had become one of Global Berry's most important communication tools, and the company's five regional sales offices spread across the U.S. all relied on the Florida headquarters for their e-mail service, says Clancy. Global Berry uses Microsoft Corp.'s Exchange Server 2003 for e-mail, he says.