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(WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- Managed hosting provider Peak 10 (www.peak10.com) announced on Thursday that businesses should test their disaster recovery plans to ensure that they are full prepared for the worst, with the 2009 hurricane season getting underway.
In particular, Peak 10 is recommending that organizations consider a multi-geographic strategy to ensure that their mission-critical data is protected.
The company itself has a network comprised of more than a dozen enterprise-class data centers in the United States including Tampa and Jacksonville, Florida.
The facilities are interconnected by a high performance, fully-redundant private network that back up customers' data real-time in multiple geographic locations.
Peak 10 offers a full disaster recovery service, including colocation and failover to hot-site, automatic traffic redirection with failover, and storage replication and mirroring replication.
It recently launched its new VirtualDR service, which offers a virtualized disaster recovery solution involving multiple data centers.
The service helps reduce some of the complexity and up-front cost that are normally associated with more traditional high-availability and disaster recovery solutions.
Peak 10 is encouraging all organizations to closely review their current disaster recovery and business continuity programs so that their data is protected against threats such as natural disaster, cyber attacks, or simple human errors.
A successful data recovery plan can reduce damages such as loss of critical data, business downtime, and reductions in employee productivity and company revenue.
"Customers that utilize multiple facilities for disaster recovery solutions enjoy the peace of mind they feel particularly as hurricane season begins," says Jeff Spalding, executive vice president of market operations for Peak 10. "Many of our customers benefitted from this strategy last year as Hurricane Ike made its way up to the Ohio Valley. We fully recognize the importance of having effective emergency plans in place and regularly conduct business continuity assessments so we can help guarantee the safety and security of our client's technology infrastructure and critical data in the face of disaster."
This year's hurricane season on the Atlantic seaboard kicked off June 1 and goes through November 30.
According to the annual US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration report, it is expected to be of near-normal activity.
An average season has 11 named storms, including six hurricanes with two becoming major hurricanes.
The NOAA predicts a 70 percent chance of 9 to 14 named storms, including four to seven detrimental hurricanes.
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