Absolutely. Although there are service providers you can subcontract to for more than this. My question is, Joe, when you speak of "the hot site team", what do these people do day-to-day when they're not recovering from disaster? Or is it a disaster contractor?

The hot-site is owned by the gov.org. Their day-to-day mission is to perform disaster tests for all the applications, for all the sites. There are multiple computer sites across the US. Their staff must review the disaster recovery plans that are submitted and then execute the test plan (on a scheduled basis). We are mandated to test the "critical" applications once a year.

For the MF environment the hot-site has operators, schedulers and support staff. I don't know how the unix side is staffed. That's for next FY.