Sometimes, It takes a real disaster to shift an organiza-tion's redundancy and backup plans into high gear. After an electrical fire this past fall gutted BrokerageAmerica's data center and knocked the brokerage offline for six hours, the company sped up a planned move of its data center to a state-of-the-art, secure collocation site. The New York firm lost hundreds of thousands of dollars in trades during that outage. It recently moved the last of its equipment to a nearby Internap collocation facility, which provides redundant DS-3 and 10-Mbps WAN connections and LAN lines, UPS systems and technical support. But a missing link remains in its disaster-recovery chain: a mirrored backup site.
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