That strategy paid off, with staff better prepared to tackle the real thing. During Hurricane Katrina, Fugate said, FDEM stepped in to help Mississippi with its disaster recovery efforts. Using Groove Virtual Office, FDEM was able to move large GIS files containing information about where resources were located from a geographic information system lab in Tallahassee to local and county emergency operations centers in Mississippi.
"We were easily moving around big chunks of data. Other systems couldn't handle that," Fugate said.
