SCENARIO: A large multinational company has three regional data centers to support the operations of the three major geographic regions where the company operates. A fourth data center serves as the central data warehouse for the company and reside in one

SCENARIO: A large multinational company has three regional data centers to support the operations of the three major geographic regions where the company operates. A fourth data center serves as the central data warehouse for the company and reside in one of the three geographic regions, but government regulations prevent the two data centers from being withing 250 miles of each other. Consider the discussions of hot, warm, and cold sites in Chapter 5 of your text and write a brief position paper on how the company should approach the data recovery of their data centers with respect to an alternate site strategy. All for data centers have equal importance in the processing of information for the company. COMMENTS: This case study requires your knowledge of materials from chapters 1 - 5 of the text, so you might want to read ahead in Chapter 5 to get a head start on it, or plan on completing it after we've covered Chapter 5.