Business Continuity

Few organizations can now continue to function when faced with the loss of enterprise applications and information. The risks of data loss, and the consequent business impact are both increasing as enterprises become every-more dependent on digital content.

The Business Continuity strategy of an organization needs to operate at multiple levels, with a number of complementary data protection techniques responding to differing data loss risks, including:

Local Data Protection, to protect and recover data in the event of data loss or corruption resulting from operational issues such as hardware failure or user errors
Disaster Recovery, to assure continued business operations in the event of a major site-level incidents
Archiving, to provide long-term secured information storage and retrieval

The Business Continuity Plan describes how an organization prepares for future incidents that could jeopardize the organization's core mission and its long-term health - and its IT-companion, the Disaster Recovery Plan, how to regain access to the data, hardware and software necessary to resume critical business operations after a natural or human-caused disaster. The BCP and DR together are major elements in the risk mitigation strategy of an organization.

The BCP/DRP strategy of an enterprise are dependent, amongst other factors, on the type and scale of risks that the enterprise faces, the dependence of key business processes on IT, the IT infrastructure, geographical organization, legal requirements and – last but least – the budget that the organization is prepared to spend to mitigate these risks.

Bull StoreWay Business Continuity Solutions contribute to the overall business continuity process by assuring that information assets are secured, protected and available.

Covering a wide range of data protection and disaster recovery scenarios, Bull StoreWay Business Continuity Solutions align the business value of the information assets with cost and degree of their protection.