Disaster Recovery by the Numbers

In most organizations, DR is the quintessential complex, unfamiliar task. Disasters happen so rarely that recovery operations are the opposite of routine. What’s more the myriad, interconnected data, application and other resources that must be recovered after a disaster make recovery an exceptionally difficult and error-prone effort. Relax. Even if you have never built a DR plan before, you can achieve great results. Just take it step by step and follow the numbers.Download Now

At first, the connection between Business Continuity and Environmental Sustainability may seem tenuous. But in fact, these two goals have more than a few points of intersection. One basic connection: both are moving quickly from “Good Idea,” right past “Best Practice” and into the “Mandate” category. Sooner than we may want to believe, businesses that don’t heed the requirements of sustainability may themselves become unsustainable. Chapter 9, “Making the Green Connection,” explains how businesses like yours are already going Green and what it means for your current and future DR and HA planning.Download Now

Do you consider investment in Business Continuity to be, at best, a necessary evil? If so, you are not alone. Even though disasters are rare, and despite the fact that chances are low you will ever suffer from one, you still have to spend the money and be prepared. Think life insurance. But right now, with the economy dragging on your business like a boat anchor, you may be tempted to cut back on your BC investments. Before you do, however, we suggest you first read Chapter 8, "BCROI: Measuring Returns on Your Business Investment. " Taking a page from the CFOs playbook, this chapter provides a comprehensive review of HA and DR technology options and how to identify and quantify the real financial return on investment inherent in each.Download Now

Mega-scale natural disasters grab headlines but smart executives know that the cumulative cost of smaller business interruptions is a more immediate and tangible threat. A key application going offline at the wrong time, even for a few minutes, can cost a company many thousands of dollars. The good news is the speed, accuracy, reliability, and affordability of IT recovery technologies have improved, whether from the accidental deletion of a single file to a natural disaster that destroys a data center. This new chapter shows you how to apply a balanced and effective set of solutions to ensure that your organization can quickly recover from the most common and most costly causes of downtime and data loss.Download Now

Information offers no value unless it is available where, when and how it is needed. And data replication is often the core infrastructure technology that makes this happen, whether it's for disaster recovery, application integration, data sharing, business intelligence, or migrations. But successful replication is not just a matter of flipping a switch. Read this chapter of Business Continuity Today to better understand the various replication methods and technologies, and to learn when, where and how each method is best applied.Download Now

Virtualization is fast becoming the technology of choice to deal with a multitude of IT issues, from constant demands for increased server capacity to enabling business processes to adapting more quickly to market needs. But moving to a virtualized architecture is not a simple venture, especially when it comes to IT continuity issues. This chapter provides practical guidance for evaluating and implementing virtualization, with special attention to data protection and availability concerns.Download Now

IT departments tasked with bringing information systems in line with the organization's compliance requirements must find ways of making IT infrastructure increasingly resilient. But how does IT's resiliency plans take into consideration all of the factors of often conflicting government, industry and service-levels requirements? This chapter gives you valuable facts to consider as you make the necessary integration between compliance regulations and information availability.Download Now

To keep a competitive advantage in today's market, organizations must keep people and information continuously connected. Business continuity of information will result in positive gain for companies that can range from reduced revenue losses to increased employee productivity. Get the facts about real-time, on-demand information sharing of business intelligence and data integration.Download Now

Security threats are growing every day in both number and sophistication. You are being asked to share more data both inside and outside the organization; you are facing increasingly strict security and privacy requirements. To compete in business today your organization needs to be able to respond with speed to whatever unexpected changes, opportunities or threats come your way. Download this report to gain access to the latest information on internet security threats. Protect your business today!Download Now

Business resilience is all about harnessing multiple complex, often competing, initiatives into a larger, strategic vision for IT that supports the business. To achieve true business resilience, you need resilient information and applications that can support the business wherever the future leads. This chapter explores how information availability - having applications, systems and data available whenever they're needed by customers, users and suppliers - impacts and enables business resilience.Download Now