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1. Weather-related events such as floods, tornadoes, hurricanes, forest/brush fires and sand storms

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Beautiful stylish fire flames
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2. Facility fires

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3. Water pipe breaks in facility

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4. Fiber or communications line are cut – loss of network

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5. Power failures – Outage or sporadic service

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Switches
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6. Human error such as a redundant systems failure that goes unnoticed and hinders the recovery operation

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7. Earthquake

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8. Security breach hacking and or malicious code

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9. Data corruption and loss - not only from physical device or network failure but also from application and user error

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10. Cascading system failure