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Figure 13.1
Virtualized servers can be recovered to alternative hosting solu-
tions following a disaster.
strategy that proved highly effective in bringing team members back
together was providing a simple website hosted in a remote geographic
area. This website was formatted to allow viewing using many forms of
mobile phone and laptop computing devices with limited connectivity
(for example, no Flash components, no graphical embellishments, etc.)
and served as an initial point of contact where details could be posted to
provide directions for further contact and team reconstruction.
A COO/DR contact site should be named in such a way that it can be
easily remembered, established in a very remote location (the other side
of the country or several states away if possible), updated regularly if only
with a change in date so that users can see the last update time, and com-
municated to all organizational members regularly. When activated, this
read-only site should provide additional contact data without requiring
individualized log-ons, to ensure that even new hires are able to read the
contact content. Only designated individuals should be able to post data
to the site, to avoid conflicting information or misleading details from
being posted in the wake of a large-scale emergency.
