Weathering the Unexpected.

The article discusses emergency recovery tests for companies that rely on computer programming. Particular attention is given to Internet services provider Google Inc.'s Disaster Recovery Testing (DiRT) event in which system failures are intentionally created to expose issues with Google's critical...

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Published in:Communications of the ACM Vol. 55; no. 11; pp. 48 - 52
Main Author: Krishnan, Kripa
Format: Article
Published: Association for Computing Machinery Nov2012
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