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A Computer Weekly buyer's guide to on-site, off-site and cloud-based disaster recovery

With businesses becoming increasingly dependent on data to function, being able to recover quickly from an IT systems failure is critical. In this 14-page buyer’s guide, Computer Weekly looks at the various options available when implementing disaster recovery.

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