Business Continuity

Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery Planning:

The Basics

Good business continuity plans will keep your company up and running through interruptions of any kind: power failures, IT system crashes, natural disasters, supply chain problems and more.

Disaster recovery and  business continuity planning are processes that help organizations prepare for disruptive events. Whether those event might include a server crashes or simply a power outage. Our involvement in this process can range from creating the plan, to providing input and support, to putting the plan into action during an emergency. Today, virtually every aspect of a company's operation is vulnerable to disruption. Some risks could take your business offline for days, but in a competitive environment, even four hours of downtime could prove fatal. As the number of risks to businesses increases, the worst-case scenario "insurance policy" approach to business continuity has become woefully inadequate. 

Q: Is there any difference between disaster recovery and business continuity planning?

A: Disaster recovery is the process by which you resume business after a disruptive event. The event might be something huge-like an earthquake or the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center-or something small, like malfunctioning software caused by a computer virus

But how do you determine the resiliency and recovery requirements of your business? How do you identify and integrate critical business and IT priorities into a comprehensive continuity and resiliency program? Where do you start?

Our business continuity plans ensure your business operations with regulatory compliance, improved systems availability, protection of data, and the integration of IT operational risk management strategies. Our services take you from planning to design through implementation and management, with a strong commitment to understanding your ever changing business requirements. Our proactive managed services provide numerous event driven capabilities based on the criticality of your data and processes, including multiple low cost options.