Disaster Recovery Centers

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This paper explains the purpose of a disaster recovery center (DRC) facility and how it is utilized whenever there is a disaster. Some services that a DRC might offer include guidance relating to disaster recovery, clarifying correspondence, information relating to assistance for housing and rental resource, resolving problems and referrals to other agencies and providing status of the applications being processed. The paper also provides different examples of how these facilities are utilized.

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"One example of a typical disaster recovery center is that of the HyperTec Group, a Canadian VAR. This company has decided to take disaster recovery to the next level of functioning, in which the initial idea of building an enormous business continuity and disaster recovery center has been implemented with great success. This BDCR centre is located in Montreal, and it will purportedly be able to provide office accommodation for more than 3,500 workers, while at the same time providing 40,000 feet of high availability, all in the eventuality of a disaster in which the original data of the company may be lost. HyperTec manages and also monitors all the workstations and network switches so that its clients would be able to start working in these premises almost immediately after a disaster, both man-made and natural. According to Bob Novek, his team and himself are all fully aware of the importance that they would play if there is a disaster, and the company, albeit unfortunately, loses its valuable data. They also realize the importance of downtime, he states, and "...they've seen the need that they can't afford to go down". (Hickey, 2006, Oct)"

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