Data and Cloud

Business Continuity Solutions

Plan and test for maintaining operations during and after major disruptions

Data and Cloud

What it is

Business continuity goes beyond data backup to encompass how your entire organization continues operating during and after a major disruption. Services include business impact analysis to identify critical processes and their dependencies, continuity planning that documents how operations shift when primary systems or facilities are unavailable, tabletop exercises that test your plans with realistic scenarios, and the technology infrastructure, such as warm standby environments and failover systems, that makes recovery possible within your defined timeframes.

Why it matters

A backup recovers your data. Business continuity recovers your operations. When your primary office floods, your data center loses power, or a ransomware attack takes down your systems for a week, business continuity planning determines whether your organization can continue serving customers or sits idle waiting for recovery.

What to expect

Engagements start with a business impact analysis to identify critical processes and acceptable downtime. A continuity plan is developed and documented. Tabletop exercises validate the plan. Technology implementations, such as warm standby environments, are configured to support the defined recovery objectives.

Where this fits

Business concerns

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Common questions

How is business continuity different from disaster recovery?

Disaster recovery focuses on restoring IT systems and data. Business continuity encompasses the entire organization: how employees work, how customers are served, how communications flow, and what manual processes can substitute for technology during an outage.

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