You have to spend money to make money – a common truism of businesses worldwide. In the case of creating and executing a business continuance plan, you need to spend money, in order to avoid losing money. The cost of a single instance of unplanned downtime – whether it’s from a network disturbance, hardware failure, acts of nature or terrorism – can range from thousands to millions of dollars.

CDI can help your company craft a technology and business process strategy to ensure the availability, recoverability, performance and security of your IT and business functions.

Architect & Design Service
CDI recognizes that high availability is not an option, but a requirement. The Architect and Design phase of our Business Continuance services is where we devise the essential technology backbone to support your business operations and help minimize your overall risk and potential for lost revenue, should your system or data unexpectedly become unavailable.

CDI’s experts work with your staff to:
	Comprehend your mission-critical business functions and enterprise applications, the priority with which they need to be brought back online, and to what degree of recovery.
	Prepare a comprehensive risk analysis of all your business applications and networking components that determines feasible business continuance alternatives, the minimum service levels required to keep downtime from affecting your business and acceptable levels of data loss. We employ our experience and methodologies to help determine vulnerabilities and potential single-points-of-failure.
	Build a framework that identifies the priority of processes and procedures, systems, applications, employees, locations, suppliers and services. We have the knowledge and capabilities to create models that can simulate and predict the system response to unplanned downtime, whether from a routine failure or natural disaster.

In addition to the hardware and software that will ensure your baseline business needs are satisfied in case of emergency, CDI delivers the appropriate combination of backup, recovery and storage solutions – both on-site and off-site. Based on the size of your company and your information needs, CDI will implement systems for data mirroring and data replication as well as network attached storage (NAS) and storage area networks (SAN), RAID protection, tape or magnetic disk backup and storage devices.

Finally, we conduct a knowledge transfer to ensure your staff is trained and everyone understands their role, should the situation arise.

Protect Your Information
Protect your company and your information. You can rest assured that unplanned downtime will not continue to threaten your business when you put your infrastructure in CDI’s hands. A leading IT infrastructure services company, CDI delivers business continuance solutions based on years of experience and proven methodologies that keep your business up and running.

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