Outsourcing, which once meant mainly the simple offloading of such auxiliary activities as groundskeeping, the corporate canteen or the data processing center, is very different today.

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To make sure the data it's entrusted with are safe, EDS performs a dozen or more recovery drills a month, sometimes switching a client's entire data processing operation from one computer center to a backup on the fly.

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To make sure the data it's entrusted with are safe, EDS performs a dozen or more recovery drills a month, in some cases switching a major client's entire data processing operation from one computer center to a backup on the fly.

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