Business Continuance
Unlike the big events that scare some companies into creating a business continuance plan (BCP), most of the time it is a small component failure that will bring an organization's system down and force it to change the way it looks at planning for a worse-case scenario. While BCP used to be about loss and recovery of computer systems and telecommunications, corporations and government entities are coming to realize that the emphasis has changed from recovery to a focus on always-on availability to customers - especially when downtime can also quickly translate into disastrous headlines in the press. With this in mind, ASC offers business continuance solution from in Alliance with our partners: Computer Associates and IBM.
Computer Associates: Its business continuity initiative is called Crisis Life Cycle Management. The initiative leverages CA's technologies and services to address all areas of business continuity best practices from needs assessment and planning to contingency command-and-control capabilities. It also incorporates new technology designed to provide a centralized common view of 'silos' of operational information, enabling organizations to proactively identify exposures and organizational threats and to create appropriate recovery plans.
Crisis Life Cycle Management also leverages the expertise and experience of CA Services, which has assisted customers in safeguarding their operations and successfully recovering from a wide range of contingencies, including the events of September 11, 2001.
In addition to leveraging CA's Unicenter (Enterprise management), eTrust (Security management) and BrightStor (Storage management) technologies, Crisis Life Cycle Management incorporates a management framework which utilizes the integration and analysis capabilities of CA's intelligent infrastructure, and the intelligent business process automation capabilities of CA's CleverPath Aion Business Rules Expert.
IBM: Through its Business Recovery Services organization, which is part of IBM Global Services, IBM helps customers when natural or man-made disasters occur. It has more than 15,000 business recovery services contracts and has conducted more than 30,000 successful disaster recovery tests in over 77 countries at 120 recovery centers around the world. The services are classified as:
- IBM Recovery Support Services addresses the protection and recovery of critical technology and data in multi-vendor environments.
- IBM Business Continuity and Recovery Consulting Services provides business and technical expertise to assist customers with IT recovery assessment and planning services, critical business process continuity services, and business interruption impact and risk management services.
- IBM Managed Continuity Services helps customers focus on their core business while IBM designs, manages and operates their business continuity and IT recovery program. IBM provides a comprehensive business continuity program, specifically designed and managed for each client.
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