abednarz
Executive Editor

Floods, fires, hurricanes… how do you prepare for data center disasters?

Opinion
Aug 17, 20121 min

Network World and SolarWinds want to hear how you’re dealing with business continuity and disaster recovery.

Floods, fires, hurricanes, earthquakes, power surges. There are plenty of disasters that can derail your data center operations. How you prepare for the worst? Do you have a disaster preparedness and response plan in place? How confident are you that your company could recover if a significant disaster were to make your main data center inaccessible? Please take our confidential survey and let us know.

Network World and SolarWinds want to learn more about how folks in IT are dealing with business continuity and disaster recovery. Our survey takes about five minutes to complete, and it’s confidential. SolarWinds is also giving away five $50 Amazon gift cards, chosen at random from those who complete the survey.

CLICK HERE to take the survey.

The results will be the subject of a Network World article publishing shortly afterward.

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Ann Bednarz is the executive editor of Network World. Ann is a longtime IT journalist and has spent 26 years writing and editing for Network World, where she has worked as a news reporter, managed product testing and reviews, and developed features and how-to articles for an audience of network professionals and data center managers. Over the last two years, she has conceived and edited award-winning content for Network World that includes 2025 Jesse H. Neal Award finalists, 2025 Azbee Award regional winners and national finalists, and 2024 Eddie & Ozzie Award finalists.

Ann holds a bachelor’s degree in architecture and spent the early part of her journalism career writing about architectural design and construction. In her free time, she keeps those skills alive through DIY projects.

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