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Jun 19, 2013

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ALSO CALLED: Continuity Planning, BCP DEFINITION: Business impact analysis (BIA) is an essential component of an organization's business continuance plan; it includes an exploratory component to reveal any vulnerabilities, and a planning component to develop strategies for minimizing risk. The result of analysis is a business impact analysis report, which describes the potential risks specific to the organization studied. One of the basic assumptions … Definition continues below.
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Data protection strategies for rapid, effective data center recovery sponsored by Dell, Inc. WHITE PAPER: This brief white paper provides you with insight on a state-of-the-art storage solution that helps organizations effectively recover data at both local and remote locations. Posted: 19 Jun 2013 \| Published: 31 Dec 2012 TOPICS: Backup Software \| Backups \| Business Continuity Planning \| Data Centers \| Data Recovery \| Disaster Planning \| Disaster Recovery \| Disaster Recovery Planning for Virtual Environments \| Storage Virtualization

Fundamentals for Building a Highly Effective and Cost-Efficient Disaster Recovery Solution sponsored by Dell, Inc. WHITE PAPER: In this brief white paper, you will discover technological advances that will make today's disaster recovery solutions less complex and less expensive to deploy. Posted: 19 Jun 2013 \| Published: 19 Jun 2013 TOPICS: Budgeting \| Business Continuity Planning \| Disaster Planning \| Disaster Recovery \| Disaster Recovery Planning for Virtual Environments \| Disk Backups \| IT Infrastructure \| SMBs \| Storage Virtualization

How to Avoid the Coming Backup Crunch sponsored by Dell, Inc. WHITE PAPER: In this brief white paper, you will discover an innovative approach to the rapid data growth conundrum. Learn how you can capture continuous backup snapshots, automate recoverability testing and offload data deduplication/compression tasks. Posted: 18 Jun 2013 \| Published: 31 Jul 2012 TOPICS: Backups \| Business Continuity Planning \| Data Deduplication \| Data Loss Prevention (DLP) \| Data Management \| Data Recovery \| Strategic Planning

Making The Business Case Leveraging Data Center Interconnect For Business Continuity sponsored by Juniper Networks, Inc. WHITE PAPER: Discover how utilizing standards-based data center interconnect (DCI) technology can help you reduce – or even eliminate – the recovery time following outages while simultaneously increasing bandwidth and connectivity between data centers. Posted: 12 Jun 2013 \| Published: 12 Jun 2013 TOPICS: Bandwidth Management \| Business Continuity Planning \| Data Center Design \| Data Center Networking \| Disaster Planning \| Disaster Recovery \| Ethernet Networks \| IP Networks \| LAN \| MPLS \| Network Architectures \| Network Capacity \| Network Design \| Network Infrastructure \| Network Performance \| Network Traffic Management \| Networking \| VLAN \| VPN \| WAN

DataCenter Investments in Asia Pacific sponsored by Equinix WHITE PAPER: This inforgraphic complied by Forrester research highlights the top priorities, investments and trends for the data center in the Asia Pacific region. See how you compare with your peers. Posted: 12 Jun 2013 \| Published: 12 Jun 2013 TOPICS: Business Continuity Planning \| Cloud Computing \| Data Center Design \| Data Center Infrastructure Efficiency \| Data Center Management \| Disaster Recovery \| IT Best Practices \| IT Industry \| IT Management

NTIA Reaps Huge Gains in TCO and Productivity With Shift to Virtualization and Network Storage sponsored by StorageHawk WHITE PAPER: This white paper explores how one organization easily and affordably implemented a storage system that incorporated SAN and NAS solutions to provide optimal performance needed to enhance their virtualized environment. Posted: 06 Jun 2013 \| Published: 06 Jun 2013 TOPICS: Business Continuity Planning \| Disk Backups \| NAS \| SAN \| SAN and Virtualization \| Server Virtualization \| Storage Efficiency \| Storage for Virtualized Servers \| Storage Infrastructure \| Storage Management \| Storage Strategy for Virtual Data Centers

Veritas Storage Foundation High Availability 6.0 sponsored by Symantec Corporation WHITE PAPER: This paper examines Symantec's latest announcement related to achieving business availability and meeting the service level agreements (SLAs) in place today. Posted: 04 Jun 2013 \| Published: 30 Nov 2011 TOPICS: Business Continuity Planning \| Disaster Recovery \| High Availability \| SLA \| Storage Infrastructure \| Storage Management

Top 7 Best Practices for Business Continuity sponsored by Symantec Corporation WHITE PAPER: This informative paper examines the top seven best practices to keep in mind when designing and implementing your own business continuity plan so that you can minimize the amount of IT downtime that can spell disaster for your organization. Posted: 04 Jun 2013 \| Published: 04 Jun 2013 TOPICS: Business Continuation Services \| Business Continuity Planning \| Business Continuity Planning Software \| Data Center Infrastructure Efficiency \| Data Center Management \| Server Virtualization

Ensuring Business Continuity - Keeping your Critical Information & Applications Online sponsored by Symantec Corporation WHITE PAPER: This white paper explores a unified approach to disaster recovery—one that offers a common solution across all operating system platforms. Read on to discover how to keep downtime to an absolute minimum, eliminate the need for virtual machine reboots, test your DR strategy without disrupting production and more Posted: 03 Jun 2013 \| Published: 30 Apr 2013 TOPICS: Backups \| Business Continuity Planning \| Cloud Backup \| Cloud Disaster Recovery \| Disaster Planning \| Disaster Recovery \| Disaster Recovery Planning for Virtual Environments

Reputational risk and IT in the insurance industry sponsored by IBM WHITE PAPER: Today's insurance industry is beginning to pay closer attention to the links between IT failures and reputational damage. This resource demonstrates how IT risk can jeopardize productivity, damage customer relationships and ultimately erode trust in your organization. Posted: 29 May 2013 \| Published: 29 May 2013 TOPICS: Business Continuity Planning \| Business Continuity Planning Software \| Business Environment \| Business IT Alignment \| Business of Information Technology \| Business Performance Management \| Business Process Management \| Business Processes \| Disaster Planning \| Disaster Recovery \| Risk Assessment \| Risk Management

Reputational risk and IT in the banking industry sponsored by IBM WHITE PAPER: Today's banking industry is beginning to pay closer attention to the links between IT failures and reputational damage. This resource demonstrates how IT risk can jeopardize productivity, damage customer relationships and ultimately erode trust in your organization. Posted: 29 May 2013 \| Published: 29 May 2013 TOPICS: Business Continuity Planning \| Business Continuity Planning Software \| Business Management \| Business of Information Technology \| Business Process Management \| Business Processes \| Disaster Planning \| Disaster Recovery \| Risk Assessment \| Risk Management

Steps to Take Before Choosing a Business Continuity Partner sponsored by Asigra WHITE PAPER: This research brief will highlight certain actions necessary in formulating a business continuity strategy and help determine if they need to outsource part, or all of the business continuity process. Posted: 23 May 2013 \| Published: 31 Jan 2013 TOPICS: Budgeting \| Business Continuity Planning \| Disaster Planning \| Disaster Recovery \| Financial Management \| Storage Management \| Strategic Planning \| Surveys

The 7 Deadly Sins of Backup and Recovery sponsored by Unitrends WHITE PAPER: This white paper provides insight into ways to avoid the seven most common missteps that organizations make in setting up disaster recovery or business continuity plans. Posted: 21 May 2013 \| Published: 31 Dec 2012 TOPICS: Backup for Virtualized Servers \| Backups \| Best Practices \| Business Continuity Planning \| Data Loss Prevention (DLP) \| Data Recovery \| Disaster Planning \| Disaster Recovery \| Disaster Recovery Planning for Virtual Environments

How SMBs Can Benefit From Hybrid Cloud-Based Backup and Business Continuity sponsored by Datto, Inc. WHITE PAPER: Access this resource to uncover the next-gen benefits that hybrid cloud-based backup and business continuity can provide to tight-budgeted small and medium sized businesses. Posted: 21 May 2013 \| Published: 20 May 2013 TOPICS: Backup for Virtualized Servers \| Backups \| Business Continuity Planning \| Business Continuity Planning Software \| Cloud Backup \| Cloud Computing \| Cloud Disaster Recovery \| Cloud Management \| Small Businesses \| SMBs

Are Your Critical Business Services Protected? sponsored by Symantec Corporation WHITE PAPER: Explore this resource that examines the new opportunities and challenges arising from virtualization of business-critical services. Learn more about how to ensure business continuity across your physical and virtual infrastructures and gain a complete view of your service landscape. Posted: 10 May 2013 \| Published: 10 May 2013 TOPICS: Application Infrastructure \| Application Monitoring \| Application Server Software \| Applications Management \| Business Continuity Planning \| Business Service Management \| IT Infrastructure \| IT Management \| Virtual Machine \| Virtual Machine Monitor

Crash Insurance: Protect Your Business with Virtualization sponsored by VMware WHITE PAPER: Read this white paper that presents the common causes of system outages, and discusses six key ways to utilize virtualization and the cloud to enhance your disaster recovery plans. Posted: 09 May 2013 \| Published: 09 May 2013 TOPICS: Business Continuity Planning \| Business Continuity Planning Software \| Cloud Computing \| Cloud Disaster Recovery \| Cloud Management \| Disaster Recovery \| Disaster Recovery Planning for Virtual Environments

Symantec Serves The Unique Needs of Public Sector sponsored by Insight Public Sector and Symantec WHITE PAPER: Uncover a set of solutions built to improve public sector organizations' ability to protect and manage critical information without limiting accessibility and availability for users. Posted: 02 May 2013 \| Published: 31 Dec 2012 TOPICS: Business Continuity Planning \| Compliance (Systems Operations) \| Data Governance \| Data Loss Prevention (DLP) \| Data Management \| Data Security \| Education Industry \| Government Information Security \| Governments \| Public Sector \| Risk Management \| Security \| Security Infrastructure \| Security Management \| Security Managers \| Security Policies \| Security Software \| Security Systems \| Security Threats

Data Protection Meets OpenStorage Technology: A Benefits and Implementation Guide sponsored by SEPATON WHITE PAPER: This resource provides the details of a data protection platform that provides affordable, effective disaster recovery and allows data managers to address the requirements of a variety of business units. Posted: 26 Apr 2013 \| Published: 31 Dec 2012 TOPICS: Backup Software \| Backups \| Business Continuity Planning \| Data Center Management \| Data Security \| Disaster Recovery

IDC: The Business Value of Entry-Level Enterprise Storage sponsored by Hitachi Data Systems WHITE PAPER: In this short white paper, learn how to deploy the next-generation of entry-level arrays to businesses that are budget-conscious, but also cannot afford to compromise on technology. Posted: 24 Apr 2013 \| Published: 31 Oct 2012 TOPICS: Budgeting \| Business Continuity Planning \| Business Management \| Data Center Management \| Data Management \| Disaster Recovery \| Financial Management \| Server Virtualization \| Storage Architectures \| Storage Capacity \| Storage Management

BUILDING A CASE FOR BUSINESS CONTINUITY sponsored by Axcient WHITE PAPER: This white paper provides insight into ways to calculate the potential ROI of a business continuity solution, understand the foundations of true business continuity, and learn strategies that other SMB IT departments are using to convince executives that business continuity technology is worth the investment. Posted: 18 Apr 2013 \| Published: 18 Apr 2013 TOPICS: Backups \| Business Continuity Planning \| Business Continuity Planning Software \| Disaster Planning \| Disaster Recovery \| SMBs \| Storage Management \| Storage Security

Evaluator Group - IBM Storwize Family: Scaling Capabilities and Value Jan 2013 sponsored by IBM WHITE PAPER: IT needs from storage systems continue to increase – this white paper discusses IBMs storwize family single architecture, its benefits and how it's applied across several market segments as independent storage systems. Posted: 11 Apr 2013 \| Published: 31 Jan 2013 TOPICS: Business Continuity Planning \| Caching \| Data Centers \| Data Compression \| Disaster Recovery \| High Availability \| RAID \| Storage Architectures \| Storage for Virtualized Servers \| Storage Strategy for Virtual Data Centers \| Storage Systems

When It Makes Sense to Move to Desktop Virtualization: Seven Key Indicators sponsored by Dell and VMware WHITE PAPER: This white paper introduces 7 key indicators to look for in your organization if you're curious to know if you're ready for the benefits of desktop virtualization. Posted: 29 Mar 2013 \| Published: 28 Feb 2013 TOPICS: Business Continuity Planning \| Data Center Management \| Desktop Applications Management \| Desktop Management \| Desktop Virtualization \| VDI

Crash Insurance: Protect Your Business with Virtualization sponsored by Dell and VMware WHITE PAPER: This white paper introduces virtualization as a means to protect applications and data against natural and other disasters by consolidating to one physical host and saving critical virtual machines to a safe place. Posted: 29 Mar 2013 \| Published: 29 Mar 2013 TOPICS: Business Continuity Planning \| Data Center Management \| Disaster Planning \| Disaster Recovery \| Disaster Recovery Planning for Virtual Environments \| Server Virtualization

Beyond Cost Savings: Four Compelling Reasons to Virtualize Your IT Environment sponsored by Dell and VMware WHITE PAPER: This white paper discusses four key benefits to virtualization – business continuity, simplified IT management, the ability to reallocate IT resources to strategic means, and enhanced business responsiveness. Posted: 29 Mar 2013 \| Published: 29 Mar 2013 TOPICS: Business Continuity Planning \| Business Development \| Data Center Management \| IT Management \| Server Virtualization

WAN Acceleration Fast-Tracks Data Protection and Disaster Recovery sponsored by Silver Peak WHITE PAPER: When IT resources become unavailable, business becomes unavailable. In this paper we will explore trends in long-haul data replication, and how enterprises are protecting their data while still achieving RPOs. Posted: 25 Mar 2013 \| Published: 28 Feb 2013 TOPICS: Backups \| Business Continuity Planning \| Data Governance \| Data Replication \| Data Security \| Disaster Planning \| Disaster Recovery \| Network Architectures \| Network Design \| Network Infrastructure \| Network Monitoring \| Network Security \| Networking \| WAN

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BUSINESS CONTINUITY PLANNING DEFINITION (continued): … behind BIA is that every component of the organization is reliant upon the continued functioning of every other component, but that some are more crucial than others and require a greater allocation of funds in the wake of a disaster. For example, a business may be able to continue more or less normally if the cafeteria has to close, but would come to a complete halt if the information system crashes. As part of a disaster recovery plan, BIA is likely to identify costs linked to failures, such as loss of cash flow, replacement of equipment, salaries paid to catch up with a backlog of work, loss …
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