This document discusses the importance of disaster recovery and business continuity planning. It outlines common causes of downtime like power failures, hardware/software issues, and natural disasters. The document recommends a 360-degree approach with five essentials: physical diversity, network availability, data archiving, data replication, and application failover. This comprehensive plan can help businesses reduce costs and legal exposure while ensuring continuity of operations and customer satisfaction. American Internet Services offers tools and services to help companies establish remote sites and infrastructure for disaster recovery.