Service detail
Does your recovery strategy take into account your entire IT infrastructure or just your hardware platforms? IBM Recovery Strategy Definition provides your company with a prioritized action plan to protect your most critical business processes. Our consultants help you identify exposures in your IT recovery program and evaluate alternatives for meeting your business recovery requirements.
Highlights
 |  | | Provides a structured, documented recoverability assessment of your IT environment |
| | | Provides your company with a prioritized action plan to protect your most critical business processes |
| | | Helps you identify exposures in your IT recovery program |
| | | Evaluates alternatives for meeting your business recovery requirements |
IBM Business Continuity and Resiliency consultants guide you in transforming your business protection requirements into a recovery strategy that matches the short- and long-term goals of your business. By evaluating different approaches in recovery programs, we help you strike the balance among what you need to protect your business, what you can afford, and what you can implement in specific time schedules.
Our consultant team proposes recovery techniques that match your company's specific recovery time requirements for critical business processes. We present the key considerations that allow you to determine the best course of action for your business, including:
- Benefits and limits of differing recovery strategies
- Tradeoffs between in-house and third-party solutions
- Capacity and performance factors
- Potential risks and constraints
- Adaptability to changing environments
- Effectiveness for environments that must coordinate recovery programs across multiple data centers
- Estimated timetable for implementation
- Impacts to your staff for training and support
Fastpath Approach
If your company's business recovery requirements include specialized IT constraints and accelerated contingency planning, our consulting team can provide a fastpath approach. We establish a cross-functional team of specialized, senior consultants that applies structured problem identification and resolution techniques simultaneously to multiple, targeted facets of your IT environment. Their extensive disaster recovery experience and pioneering of best-of-breed contingency practices enables them to produce, on an accelerated schedule, an actionable, integrated set of business continuity solutions.
The fastpath approach provides a comprehensive understanding of your IT production environment as well as results you can quickly start to implement as part of an integrated set of business continuity plans.
