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The biggest losses from the attacks last week were flesh and blood, not bits of data. But as companies whose operations were pulverized in the World Trade Center disaster seek to rebuild, they're looking to datastorage and services firms to restore some sense of normalcy to their businesses.
Twin Cities data firms, several of which have spent the past week assessing damage to New York-based customers' informational assets, say the road back will be a slow one. But they said the disaster will likely reinforce the need for firms to protect corporate data through remote-storage or backup strategies. Others note that the situation could have been even worse, had not so many companies established disaster-recovery plans in preparation for the Year 2000 issue.
"It certainly makes people more aware of the vulnerability...