OK. By a show of hands, who of you out there has a valid disaster-recovery plan? Forget it—I probably wouldn’t believe you even if I could see your hands. A recent Network Computing E-Mail Poll showed that more than 40 percent of you have small (less than 24 ports) populations of dial-in ports. What’s more, the E-Mail Poll indicated that you’re in no rush to outsource these ports. Let’s extrapolate that number, for the purpose of discussion, assuming the number of WAN connections, voice and fax lines are all proportional. More than likely, you’ve come to the conscious, or unconscious, decision that you can’t afford resilience to the point of nonstop networking or a standby disaster recovery site. If this is you’re decision, it’s time to reexamine it. I know—you’re past the point of waking up in a cold sweat wondering if a flood or a riot will take you out of business, but, the fact is, an affordable disaster-recovery site strategy may already be well within your reach.