Business Continuity Planning

What is Business Continuity?

Simply stated - the ability of an organization to maintain operations and services in the face of a disruptive event.

Interruptions are not just large scale events

All businesses experience some type of business interruption - whether it be hardware failure, operator error or a malicious attack. The below studies and statistics show that these significant events happen with alarming frequency and that the affects can be devastating to your business.

• 93% of business that lost their data center for 10 days went bankrupt within one year
  (National Archives & Records Administration)
• 43% of companies experiencing disasters never re-open, and 29% close within two years
  (McGladrey and Pullen)
• 1 out of 500 data centers will have a major outage each year (McGladrey and Pullen)
• 80% of all data centers will have one major event every 5 years (Gartner)
• Almost 60% of companies incurred significant financial damage in the past year
• 1 out of 4 organizations had a significant disruption in their computer systems - 25% of those disruptions lasting longer than 24 hours

Developing Your Plan

When it's time to develop your plan, you must take into account each individual business unit within your company as well as look at them all as a whole. Our team brings together the expertise and professionalism from planners with experience in both technology and business operations. Through our partnerships with internationally recognized and Certified Business Continuity Planners, we can provide you with complete planning at all levels to ensure your business is protected in the face of disruption.

• Data Center Resiliency Design
• Active / Active Load Balancing and Redundancy
• Active / Passive - Replication and Failover
• Server Virtualization and High Availability
• Data Center Recovery
• Disaster Recovery Plans
• Business Continuity Planning
• Business Impact Analyses
• Risk/Threat Assessments
• Exercises & Simulations
• Pandemic Planning and Incident Response
• Emergency and Crisis Management
• Incident Management during disasters
• Customized planning for your business
• Contact us to see if we can provide you with the contingency planning expertise required to plan for and manage these types of events.

Plan Maintenance

Our hosted Continuity Management Solution provides you with the ability to easily keep your plan up to date and helps ensure you account for all details during the planning process. Clients choose our planning software because it is easy-to-use, affordable, reliable, comprehensive and auditor approved. Our clients utilize our consulting solutions because of our industry focus and reputation.