Resources for Continuity of Operations (COOP) and Continuity of Government (COG)

Bulletproof Your Business

Symantec

This technology brief describes how, for the overwhelming majority of companies today, the question is no longer whether they need a good business continuity strategy, it’s what that strategy should be. They must consider which business processes and underlying applications need protection; what level of protection they need; how much they will spend; which tools and services they will deploy; and how the company will manage its business continuity plan going forward.

It wasn’t long ago that disaster recovery and business continuity technologies were mostly about backup. Business processes did not depend on technology to the degree they do today. If access to applications was lost, most departments or business units could revert to manual processes while data was being restored from tape or hardware and applications were rebuilt and redeployed. Except for the largest global enterprises, most organizations did not have the need or the budget for costly business continuity technologies, such as long distance replication and application failover. Those that did mainly used basic two-node application failover for a handful of mission critical applications. Many did not even have a backup strategy in place.

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