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Business continuity is vital to business success. And in today's interconnected world, 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.

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?

IBM Business Continuity and Resiliency Services can help. Business resilience extends beyond the continuity of business operations to include regulatory compliance; high availability, security and data protection; and integrated risk management. Our services take you from planning and design through implementation and management, with a strong commitment to understanding your ever-changing business requirements.

Comprehensive services tailored to your business resilience needs
The Business Continuity and Resilience services portfolio includes:

• IBM Resiliency Consulting Services(US) - assess, design and plan for your resilient business infrastructure
• IBM Information Protection Services(US) - protect and recover your vital business information
• IBM Managed Resiliency Services(US) - provide a fault-tolerant, failure-resistant infrastructure with near-zero recovery times
• IBM Disaster Recovery Services(US) - recover business, infrastructure and employees in the event of a disruption

These services help ensure resiliency across all layers of the business, including strategy and vision, organization and human resources, business processes, applications and data, technologies and facilities, as well as help businesses avoid, prepare and recover from a disruption. IBM's unparalleled reliable delivery enables commitment to individual customers and willingness to go above and beyond expectations.

Talk to us about how to integrate resiliency into your business
With business becoming more complex and interconnected, the risk and cost of disruption extends well beyond IT, to every aspect of business processes. Contact us to learn how a world-class, fully integrated solution can build continuity into every layer of your business.