Likewise, if international banks are spending millions of dollars on building replicated data centers in case of major disasters, why worry about a small regional bank that wants to stay open for its clients no matter what?

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If a member of the employee's family has joined such a network, the data can be replicated on many other computers.

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According to projections by Century Link, by 2015, the world will see a four-fold increase in the amount of data being created and replicated.

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New, faster genetic sequencers are making this work ever more possible, especially since they don't require DNA to be extracted from cells and then replicated in bacteria, a process that can actually cause valuable data to be lost.

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