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out effectively and with minimal risk.
“We did stretch our team quite a bit just
to stay on top of the overlapping waves,
but they were real troopers and they
came through for us,” Grant recalls.
Another key metric in the success
of the migration is the increased
resilience of Canadian Blood Services’
DR plan. “It was calculated that the
business could only tolerate four hours
of downtime,” says Grant. To shrink the
process of getting the organization’s
IT infrastructure back on line from six
days to four hours, Canadian Blood
Services bought enough capacity in
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