Its creation was a prolonged and agonizing process because each time that I thought we had covered everything that a company might need, a memory would pop up of a client we had seen that had suffered a devastating loss because of some unusual circumstance that they hadn't planned on. Over 24 years, we've seen so many different ways that companies have been brought down. Each time they never imagined it could possibly happen to them. Each memory would trigger an urge to add "just one more thing" to the broadcast and the presentation just kept growing and growing with examples until finally we decided to just pull all of the horror stories and just stay with the "principals" of data disaster protection and save the stories for a book.
We also put out a white paper not too long ago about a relatively recent data disaster that we had to help a client through. The client thought they had an effective protection strategy for their servers provided by their "home office" until their mail server died. Only then did they find out that one of the key principles of our webinar hadn't been followed - TEST IT FREQUENTLY TO INSURE THAT IT WORK. Nope! It wasn't.
At that moment, the job of recovery switched to "salvage mode" and they spent many thousands of dollars to recover what data could be salvaged from almost completely useless hard drives. Fortunately, after a near Herculean effort, we were able to recover about 90% of their lost data and four days later we were able to bring what was left of their data back on-line. The last 10% (mostly corrupted spreadsheets attached to emails) had to be re-constructed from scratch by their staff requiring countless hours of additional work.
If you'd like to read that White Paper, it's called "Anatomy of a Data Disaster" and can be found on the welcome page of our corporate website: www.act4networks.com.
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