The Collaboration Gap, and How to Bridge It
CIO, September, 2007 by Nancy Weil
They were leaving a session about disaster recovery, reflecting, Griffin remembers, that they were both in similar jams. Disaster recovery solutions from vendors were expensive—especially for small colleges (like LMU and Bowdoin) with limited budgets. Griffin and Davis joked about how easy it would be for people to replicate each other’s data centers if only they were willing to work together. Then came the epiphany.
“We said, What if we actually did it?” Davis recalls. Half a year later, Griffin, who is based in Los Angeles, and Davis, in Brunswick, Maine, began developing a solution that allows them to host each other’s disaster recovery sites. And it has cost a mere fraction of what it would have to hire a vendor.
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