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The March 11 earthquake and tsunami hitting Japan highlights colocation and wireless as part of enterprise disaster-recovery strategy planning. The challenge in wide-reaching disasters like earthquakes, tsunamis and hurricanes is that the backup facility (in-house or colocation) may, too, be in the disaster zone, while wired communications are typically damaged, making recovery difficult.
As part of a converged solutions approach, IT managers should build support for wireless access services into their DR strategy as they will likely find that service providers are able to restore wireless network access services more quickly than wireline.
DR is especially important for those looking at colocation with 41% of companies citing it as the second most important driver for deployment. Colocation facilities typically offer higher levels of availability and fault tolerance than most enterprise data centers. Japanese colocation providers including Equinix and Telehouse continue to maintain full operations even during rolling power outages.
Bottom line: Consider both wireless and colocation as part of your high availability disaster recovery strategy.
