These devices provide direct attached storage that can be used to save user content, such as in a backup, to move content from place to place faster than a network allows or even for expanding the useful storage capacity for some common household devices such as some set top boxes or DVRs.
But the report also suggests some on-the-ground steps, including getting more mobile fuel facilities, deploying city staffers faster to work with community groups on relief operations and working with companies to extend cellphone towers' backup power.