Perrier has built Universal Data into the No. 1 disaster-recovery and virtualization specialist in the greater New Orleans area, teaming with vendors like VMware, EMC, Cisco and Microsoft. He said in the aftermath of the Katrina disaster, more businesses are "paying attention to the fact that things can go wrong and you can lose information. And you lose business. During the Hurricane, everyone was worried about protecting their computers. But it is the information that counts. I think the rest of the country is catching on to that."
