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A Practical Approach to Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery
What does it mean to your organization if you do not have a Business
Continuity and Disaster Recovery (BC/DR) plan? How are you addressing the threats, demands and regulations facing your operations? Failing to plan for business continuity can lead to lost revenue, inability to recover mission-critical data and even jeopardizing the welfare of others. Proper planning for business continuity can often be a process that is both costly and resource intensive. The reality is that most organizations are not happy with the plans they have in place and are constantly tasked with improving them.
Today there is an abundance of technology and many different services to ensure every aspect of your operations. It is not only possible to ensure recovery during unplanned outages but to actually eliminate the possibility of outages. In addition, adding strong business continuity solutions not only prevents outages but can actually enhance day to day operations.
Titanium Continuity takes a fresh approach to delivering plans and services to ensure operational resiliency. Our team of Business Continuity & Disaster Recovery experts can help you develop, execute and test comprehensive BC/DR plans that encompass your entire operation from software, hardware, network, and facilities to the processes you need to maintain during downtime. Our approach is to examine your business first and then to customize a solution that your organization can adopt. We understand that business continuity management is not a prepackaged solution; it’s plans and processes that need to be developed and assimilated into an organization. Let us bring the expertise and services that can help optimize that process.
The Cost of Business Continuity
Minimize Downtime
93% of companies that lost their data center for ten days or more due to a disaster filed for bankruptcy within one year of the disaster
--National Archives and Record
Minimize Risk
92% of users surveyed acknowledged that their companies would face serious consequences if they had to implement their disaster recovery plans.
--Dynamic Markets Ltd.
Control Cost
73% of executives expressed concern with the costs associated with maintaining a secondary data center.
--Beacon Technolo Partners
Where does your company lie?
The following chart outlines the different levels a company can be in terms of how they address business continuity management. Do you know what level your company is at and what it takes to move up to the next level?
Level
1
Synergistic
All business units have a measurably high degree of business continuity planning competency and complex business protection strategies are formulated and tested on a regular basis.
Level
2
Planned Growth
Business continuity plans and tests incorporate multi-departmental considerations of critical enterprise business processes.
Level
3
Enterprise Awakening
All critical business functions have been identified and continuity plans for their protection have been developed across the enterprise.
Level
4
Enterprise Governed
Participating business units and departments have instituted a rudimentary governance program, mandating at least limited compliance to standardized BCM policy, practices and processes to which they have commonly agreed.
Level
5
Awareness
The strategic importance of business continuity management has been recognized by at least one business unit or department and efforts to increase executive and enterprise-wide awareness has begun.
Level
6
Self-Governed
Business continuity management has been acknowledged but has been dismissed as an unfeasible initiative for both economic and structural reasons
Level
7
Agnostic
Business continuity management has not yet been recognized as a viable initiative.