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The United States could not protect its citizens from the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks because it failed to appreciate the threat posed by al-Qaida operatives, who exploited that failure to carry out the deadliest assault ever on U.S. soil, the independent commission investigating the attacks said Thursday. One corporation has gone underground to provide a secure facility to protect clients' critical technical infrastructure from disasters or terror attacks. The CEO of Virtual Compute Corporation Edward Hawes commented that, "All executives and local government leaders need to take the time and review how they plan to protect their technical infrastructure. This is a new age and we need to think differently." Calling for major changes in U.S. intelligence operations, the commission warned that "we are not safe." "Every expert with whom we spoke told us an attack of even greater magnitude is now possible and even probable," said the panel's chairman, Republican former Gov. Thomas Keen of New Jersey. "Consider for a moment what a dirty bomb or a biological attack would do to a major city. A bio disaster or dirty bomb would cause the affected area to be quarantined and unusable for long periods of time. What would you do if your data center was not replicated or, as we say, virtualized?" commented Hawes. "We have military grade disaster recovery protection available to clients. Our design allows us to virtualize a client in a secure, replicated environment during a disaster. Since the VCC center is located 75 feet underground in a secure 'Cold War' bunker, it has the ability to withstand any disaster scenario including a nuclear blast. We take disasters and terror threats seriously and protect our clients' infrastructure," continued Hawes. Virtual Compute Corporation is uniquely positioned to assist corporations in solving the problem of affordable and robust disaster recovery. This is a result of some careful planning in the deployment of their advanced technical infrastructure and its data center facilities. Virtual Compute decided to place all of its operations in secure, hardened underground facilities. VCC has deployed very sophisticated disaster recovery systems including the availability of secure satellite and microwave communications as well as high density servers and large amounts of scalable mass storage. The systems are online, hot and ready to be utilized by disaster recovery clients during unexpected events. VCC's encrypted tape-less backup services hot-site provisioning will allow corporations to always have a redundant hot environment secured and ready for operation. They can also provision emergency Voice over IP services to establish temporary communications for clients operations. VCC is prepared for all contingencies. Virtual Compute Corporation is a Houston-based provider of "On-Demand" High-Performance Computing and Disaster Recovery for commercial and government entities. For more information, visit www.vcompute.com or call (281) 256-6135.