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I was early in my career, working as a Microsoft Exchange consultant, when I got the kind of call that makes your stomach drop. A large healthcare organization had completely lost its Exchange server. I remember staring at the screen and thinking, “Houston, we have a problem.” Let’s just say this was near the turn of the millennium—pre-SAN era, outside of the big iron environments. The organization had lost two drives, and with them, their Exchange database. Our only option w

I remember exactly where I was—sitting at my desk as the CIO of a regional bank in Central Pennsylvania—when the call came in. A manhole fire in Philadelphia had taken down 90% of our MPLS network. The only remaining circuit was our connection to our core provider from our operations center. Every branch was offline. Even our so-called “backup” circuits, provided by the same vendor, were down. Our team was pushed to the limit. Through grit, creativity, and considerable manual

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