Click and Ship did not have the revenue for Disaster Recovery which is the mechanism by which critical information is backed-up to alternate geographic locations in the event of a disaster. The purpose of DR is to not lose revenue do to down-time and to provide customers with secure and reliable shopping.

Disaster Recovery will cost Click and Ship and estimated $300,000 initially then approximately $100,000 annually for life cycle management, additional man-hours, licenses, power and facilities etc.

Click and Ship has not yet seen a profit from the first year but projects profits of $1,000,000 for each of the next 5 years. The current IT Life Cycle Management annual budget is $150,000 which means that the IT LCMP would increase to $250,000 or 25% of the company's profit.

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