When a credit union suffers a disaster, whether it be from a Hurricane Sandy, Winter Storm Athena, the floods of last spring, tornadoes of summer, earthquakes from anytime, political unrest — whatever disaster de jour presents itself, it is critical to restore service as soon as possible.

While data recovery is really important (after all, who has what money in which account is pretty critical), it is probably not the immediate concern to the member standing outside the closed credit union door.

"Where's the data?" isn't the most important thing in today's bandwidth and cloud computing. What is most important is how we provide service to our membership. I guarantee you that that member standing outside the front door could care less where data is stored, how dispersed the cloud is, or what disaster recovery preparations were made. The only thing that member wants is access to his or her money.

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