IT executives often focus on data center replication, building design and backups when doing disaster planning. Yet experts say that recovery plans should be customized for whichever type of major disaster is most likely to occur in any given area. Ken Brill, founder and executive director of The Uptime Institute in Santa Fe, New Mexico, believes that regional considerations such as city location, proximity to the ocean, whether the data center will be near a flood plain and even variables such as whether the data center is near an exterior wall, should all be considered carefully, not on broad computing guidelines.

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