The same sort of challenges of integration, identity management, disaster recovery that were addressed as ERP and the rest of the enterprise application suite emerged will now have to be addressed in the world of SaaS. The scope of this work is vastly underestimated, as is the maturity of the available solutions targeted at addressing these problems.

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Another New Jersey company, CommVault specializes in software for data management: archiving, disaster recovery, migration and so on.

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The storm also forced the postponement of two "disaster recovery" workshops in the suburbs at which the Federal Emergency Management Agency was to help homeowners and businesses victimized by Sandy.

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The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has set up a disaster-recovery centre in Lowe's parking lot.

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To further coordinate U.S. relief efforts and to assist in the assessment of the immediate response and longer term recovery needs, we have deployed additional U.S. personnel to work alongside Pakistani national and provincial disaster management officials.

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