Rosemont, Illinois-based Comdisco Inc’s Comdisco Disaster Recovery Services Europe is planning to implement a Disaster Recovery delivery architecture on a pan-European basis. Already the company provides 900 European customers with a network of fully equipped computer and workarea recovery centres, available in the event of fire, flood, power cuts and similar disasters. Its UK subsidiary, Failsafe Roc Ltd, has offices in Preston, London, Redditch and Milton-Keynes; it has a French subsidiary, Ageris International, in the Parisian suburb of Marne-La-Vallee (Comdisco recently bought out its partner in the venture to take 100% ownership); and a joint venture with debis Systemhaus GmbH in Ottobrunn, a suburb of Munich provides the company’s foothold in Germany. Comdisco’s latest fourth generation architecture CDRS Net provides a fully integrated recovery system combining two types of facilities; Computer Recovery Facilities and Business Recovery Facilities. The former houses the traditional hot sites much like those Comdisco facilities located in the UK, France and Germany. The latter provides clients with access and control to a geographically remote site through a Customer Control Centre containing the terminals and communications equipment required to support a remote CPU (and in some cases printers, tape drives and front-end processors). A back-up is also offered for end users. The Computer & Business Recovery Facilities are to be connected via a dedicated and switched terrestrial and satellite network. CDRS Net is to be implemented through existing Computer Recovery Facilities in the UK, France and Germany. Further networks are planned for other cities including Brussels, Frankfurt, Luxembourg, Milan and Zurich.
