Business Continuance Overview

Events of the last few years – floods, blackouts, viruses, hackers, acts of terrorism – have cost companies lost revenue, customers and valuable data. They have also opened the eyes of corporate executives who are now increasingly implementing recovery plans designed to quickly restore their operations should another calamity occur.

While this may be a good reactive strategy, what if you could be proactive and avoid or minimize the impact such disasters could have on your operations?

CDI’s Business Continuance services are the answer. CDI understands that it’s not just about getting servers back up and running; business continuance is about preventing the technology from failing. CDI helps companies develop and solidify their disaster recovery, data backup, storage requirements and other systems to ensure a comprehensive contingency plan that can avoid and mitigate the potential damages to profit, equipment and customer loyalty that result from planned and unplanned downtime.

Business Continuance Services

CDI offers a complete suite of Business Continuance services. Our consultants examine how downtime impacts every department and every critical and corporate-level function that runs your business and services your customers. We then use this information to define each area’s acceptable recovery time and recovery point objectives (RTO & RPO) in the event of a disaster or hardware failure during routine maintenance.

Feasible contingency options are identified and an extensive risk management assessment is executed. Our consultants analyze existing high-availability operating system options (such as clusters), data replication technologies (such as SRDF or CASA) and business system recovery technologies (such as 9i RAC and SharePlex). We then make appropriate recommendations to ensure that these systems are equipped to effectively minimize outages, data loss and loss of productivity.

CDI will implement the technologies required to enhance and protect your systems. Our consultants have expertise in an array of leading technologies for ensuring business uptime, including:

• HP MC/ServiceGuard
• Veritas Cluster Server
• EMC Timefinder/SRDF (Symmetrix Remote Data Facility)
• Oracle DBA services
• Quest SharePlex
• Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC)

Once the Business Continuance plan is executed, CDI delivers a training program to ensure that every employee understands their role, should the company be faced with unexpected downtime or a disaster situation.

Preparedness, Not Reactive-ness

There’s no predicting when a disaster will strike. In today’s increasingly technology-reliant marketplace, a business continuance plan is a critical component of your company’s continued success.

CDI has the experience, the vendor relationships and the proficiency to design and implement Business Continuance services that can mean the difference between hiccup and disaster.

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