With the increasing number of natural disasters, terrorism events, and unrest around the globe, the importance of business continuity planning and disaster recovery planning is becoming more apparent. The recent onslaught of these events has highlighted the importance of system availability and forced senior management of many organizations to think seriously about contingency planning. Senior management understands if systems are not available, financial losses occur by the hour and their business reputation drops rapidly. While business continuity issues don’t always occur on a daily basis, it is important to prepare for the day a disaster does occur.