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Business Continuity
Ensuring you have the right plans in place for disasters
Business Continuity deals with how you plan to keep your business functioning in specific disaster scenarios. Disaster Recovery is one component of Business Continuity as is Fault Tolerance planning.
Regulatory compliance requirements such as HIPAA for the healthcare industry or the SEC for financial services companies can dictate what procedures and arrangements your business must have in place in the case of disaster.
Regardless of the regulations, you must evaluate for your business how much system downtime you can afford to tolerate before you will lose customers, lose your operating license or simply go out of business. For most, only a short period without critical systems could be tolerated.
Business continuity plans range from the lowest level such as whether you configure a server with multiple mirrored hard drives, to data replication between servers should one fail, to having a failover site for your business should the worst disaster strike.
Your plans should encompass for example , backup and restore, recovery planning for each critical component or application, failover arrangements for data pipes and a testing plan that is revisited every six months to ensure it is still up to date and applicable.
Squeeze Technology consultants have had many years of experience in helping organizations plan and deliver at all the levels described above for companies of many sides including Legal and General Investment Management America and Royal Bank of Scotland.
