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By Deanna Ferrante

As the death toll continues to rise, my thoughts and prayers are with the survivors in Japan who are trying to recover what they can of their lives. Such a tragedy, not just for Japan, but for our planet. Mother Nature can cause chaos and confusion without much notice and after the human impacts are known, the business and economic impacts will still be unfolding. As I read the stories, I can't help but think about 2005 and Hurricane Katrina.

Hurricane Katrina, at the time, was the costliest natural disaster and one of the five deadliest hurricanes in US history. In my line of work with enterprise content management, I often see the less tangible impacts of weather events, including loss of information and processing delays when entire buildings worth of files are lost. Universities, hospitals and office building were under water and so was the information that would be so desperately needed in the aftermath.

Disaster recover is more than a box on a checklist. It is the difference between continuing operations and business coming to a complete halt. It's the difference between immediately verifying medical coverage and months of trying to validate claims. As I think back on the customers I worked with and the challenges they faced, I'm glad that finding critical information was not among the frustrations and battles they had to overcome as they tried to recover their lives.

SOURCE: Perceptive Software