Business Continuity and Resiliency Services: Literature

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Explores how businesses can utilize business resiliency management (BRM) as a market differentiator.

Facilitating continuous data backup and recovery with end-to-enddata protection for desktops and laptops.

Five critical areas you need to consider when building human factors into your continuity strategy.

Details how virtualizing disaster recovery helps avoid catastrophic hardware failures in virtualized environments and dramatically improve responsiveness and speed of recovery.

Your IT infrastructure must be designed to help ensure the continuity of your business operations in the event of an unexpected disruption, and to secure data integrity.

Manage risks, regulations and opportunities more effectively for amore flexible business

Strengthen your business with cloud computing—delivering greater resiliencyand a more globally accessible environment

Does your company's business continuity plan address the human side of disasters?

Develop a best practices strategy using a tiered approach

In the past three years, dynamics for disaster recovery has changed more dramatically than in the previous 40 years combined.

Traditionally, organizations have evaluated the need for business continuity programs by trying to determine how an adverse event could impact processes and create financial exposure.

As the business world becomes more global and interconnected, informationbased risk grows. Having larger, more remote workforces results in a greater number of access points — at multiple facilities, at home offices and through mobile devices such as laptops and personal digital assistants.

The demand for protecting critical information continues to drive the need for greater disaster recovery capability.

For years, many companies have been faced with challenges related to providing backup and recovery for infrastructures, technologies and networks in order to protect their critical business processing capabilities.

Whether it's telesales, teleservice, telemarketing, or telesupport, the telephone is still the primary tool for most customer interactions. Technology continues to advance the ability to respond quickly in other ways but Call Centers still handle the majority of customer interactions.

The rise of remote data protection services

Recommending a systematic approach to helping you protect your critical information assets while providing a more flexible and strategic foundation for addressing business challenges.

When a disaster event occurs, resources from the larger pool can be reconfigured to provide capacity and access for assuming the primary production environment. While on the surface this appears to be a very attractive strategy, there are many underlying factors that should be considered.

Ensuring continuity in a volatile environment

Preparing for potential storms ahead