Just when cloud computing might have seemed like a welcome solution to disaster recovery planning in Japan, Amazon suffered a major outage that affected hundreds of customers.

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Deloitte, a firm of consultants, has created one called Bamboo to help it with disaster-recovery planning.

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It boasts a thousand experts in data encryption, computer forensics, disaster planning and recovery.

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Events like these spurred businesses to urgently consider disaster recovery and business continuity planning.

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Has Japanese government planning for disaster recovery been fast or slow?

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