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Business Continuity Planning

ALSO CALLED: Continuity Planning and BCP
DEFINITION: Business continuance (sometimes referred to as business continuity) describes the processes and procedures an organization puts in place to ensure that essential functions can continue during and after a disaster. Business continuance planning seeks to prevent interruption of mission-critical  … 
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Desktop Security on Demand
sponsored by Cisco Systems, Inc.
WHITE PAPER: The Gartner analysis identifies several threat categories that are growing in number and complexity, exploiting operating system and application vulnerabilities in desktop and mobile PCs to infect corporate networks.
Posted: 04 Sep 2008 | Published: 04 Sep 2008
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Persystent Enterprise Suite Vs Norton Ghost Management Suite - Technical Brief
sponsored by Persystent Technologies
WHITE PAPER: The purpose of this positioning paper is to compare Norton Ghost Management Suite and Persystent Enterprise Suite.
Posted: 02 Sep 2008 | Published: 29 Aug 2008
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The Perfect 10: The Top 10 Things to Look for in an Infrastructure Provider
sponsored by Verio
WHITE PAPER: This paper explains critical steps to review ongoing relationships with infrastructure partners and evaluate them to see if they meet certain criteria.
Posted: 02 Sep 2008 | Published: 01 Sep 2008
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Effective File Management: Enabling Business Continuity for Business Critical Files
sponsored by Brocade Communications Systems, Inc.
WHITE PAPER: This paper assesses one specific solution, Brocade StorageX, which boosts the reliability and availability of files.
Posted: 25 Aug 2008 | Published: 25 Aug 2008
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Preparing for the Unexpected: Utilizing Avaya to Help Build Your Communications Continuity Capability
sponsored by Avaya Inc.
WHITE PAPER: This paper is designed to help enterprises understand how Avaya, with its broad portfolio of systems, applications, built-in recovery features and professional services, can help plan and execute a solid approach to communication continuity preparedness.
Posted: 22 Aug 2008 | Published: 22 Aug 2008
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Presentation Transcript: Planning and Deploying a Disaster Recovery Solution
sponsored by Hewlett-Packard Company
WHITE PAPER: This whitepaper explores business continuity, and disaster recovery. Learn how to develop a good disaster recovery plan, and about the advantages that VMware brings in terms of consolidation.
Posted: 18 Aug 2008 | Published: 18 Aug 2008
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Backup Express and NetApp: Remote Site Business Continuity with Syncsort BEX Advanced Recovery and NetApp FAS Systems
sponsored by Syncsort
WHITE PAPER: This paper explains the low cost and high speed of Advanced Technology Attachment (ATA) disks. It explains how they enable near-instant recovery from past points in time, and employ new technologies that maximize the speed of data transfers.
Posted: 13 Aug 2008 | Published: 01 Aug 2008
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Conquering the Storage Provisioning Balancing Act - Dell/EMC CX4 Virtual Provisioning Overview
sponsored by Dell | EMC
WHITE PAPER: In this white paper learn how Virtual Provisioning and the new Dell/EMC CX4 Series helps organizations to reduce storage costs by increasing capacity utilization, simplifying storage management, and reducing application downtime.
Posted: 08 Aug 2008 | Published: 01 Aug 2008
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The Guide to Backup and Continuous Data Protection Integration
sponsored by Symantec Corporation
WHITE PAPER: Continuous data protection (CDP) has emerged as an extremely viable method of protecting your critical data. This eGuide provides an overview on CDP technology, highlights best practices for implementation and discusses how to control RAID through...
Posted: 06 Aug 2008 | Published: 06 Aug 2008
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Backup 101: Seven Tips for Better SMB Backups
sponsored by Symantec Corporation
WHITE PAPER: While the backup needs of small-midsized businesses (SMBs) are essentially the same as those of enterprises, there are some important differences. The following tips in this whitepaper can make sure that your backups are successful.
Posted: 06 Aug 2008 | Published: 06 Aug 2008
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Data Center Design and Infrastructure Chapter 2: Data Center Power Management
sponsored by Hewlett-Packard Company
WHITE PAPER: This chapter focuses on power management in the data center. Learn about the mounting pressure on data center managers to find more reliable-and yet less expensive-ways to power IT infrastructure, achieve energy savings, and avoid elect...
Posted: 31 Jul 2008 | Published: 24 Jul 2008
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Presentation Transcript: The Strategy of Success: Best Practices in Building Your SAP Consulting Business
sponsored by SAP America Inc
WHITE PAPER: This whitepaper discusses best practices for building and running a successful SAP consulting business. It also explores the steps and skills necessary for succeeding as A SAP consultant.
Posted: 09 Jul 2008 | Published: 01 Jul 2008
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Maximizing IT Investments: Recession-proofing Your Network
sponsored by F5 Networks
WHITE PAPER: This whitepaper outlines a plan that enables network teams to implement a plan that optimizes application performance. It also identifies recession-proof networking technologies and their challenges.
Posted: 09 Jul 2008 | Published: 09 Jul 2008
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Exposure at the Edge: The Real Risk to Business Applications
sponsored by Persystent Technologies
WHITE PAPER: This article describes some of the key challenges facing finance executives, as well as the best practices and technology that can help organizations meet day to day challenges.
Posted: 03 Jul 2008 | Published: 01 Jan 2007
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Planning for the Unforeseen: Insuring Communications for All Contingencies
sponsored by Avaya Inc.
WHITE PAPER: Considering disaster preparedness, this paper explores a range of unforseen situations, highlight lessons learned, and defines communications strategies that can prepare us for meeting the needs of unforeseen events.
Posted: 01 Jul 2008 | Published: 01 Jun 2008
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Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity: Building Financially Rewarding Planning Strategies Services
sponsored by Zenith Infotech
WHITE PAPER: This eguide highlights ways channel professionals can help clients manage their most critical business needs and outlines ways they can move into the financially rewarding practice of disaster recovery and business continuity.
Posted: 20 Jun 2008 | Published: 20 Jun 2008
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Sun Microsystems' Solutions for Virtualization across the Enterprise
sponsored by Insight and Sun Microsystems, Inc
WHITE PAPER: Sun's customer-driven approach for how companies implement a virtual environment will enable customers to choose the right virtualization tool for the job yet still maintain cohesive management of a heterogeneous environment.
Posted: 19 Jun 2008 | Published: 01 Aug 2007
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Building the Business Case for Host Intrusion Defense
sponsored by Third Brigade
WHITE PAPER: This white paper helps organizations create the business case for a host intrusion defense system, it also defines the different categories or types of benefits and explains how host intrusion defense impacts these areas.
Posted: 16 Jun 2008 | Published: 01 Jun 2008
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HP StorageWorks 3 Data Center Replication - protects against both local and wide-area disasters by simultaneously supporting short-distance synchronous replication and long-distance asynchronous replication emanating from the same source volume
sponsored by Hewlett-Packard Company
WHITE PAPER: The HP StorageWorks 3 Data Center Replication (3DC) architecture technology provides data currency and consistency.
Posted: 11 Jun 2008 | Published: 01 Apr 2008
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IDC Q&A: Maximizing Data Protection with Disk-Based Backup
sponsored by Hewlett-Packard Company
WHITE PAPER: Traditional approaches to data backup and protection are being augmented into midsize and larger enterprises by new disk based storage technologies. This whitepaper discusses how you can maximize your data protection with disk based backups.
Posted: 04 Jun 2008 | Published: 01 Mar 2008
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Enhancing Operational Recovery with Innovative CDP Solutions
sponsored by Double-Take Software
WHITE PAPER: Operational recovery is a key component in any business continuity plan. This white paper addresses the current challenges of operational recovery and highlights CDP solutions that help address these issues by enabling fast and efficient data recovery.
Posted: 04 Jun 2008 | Published: 04 Jun 2008
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Ensuring Working Business Communications During and After a Business Disruption Event
sponsored by AT&T Corp
WHITE PAPER: Many firms fail to consider how lines of communication will stay open in the event of a Business Disruption Event. Make sure your company's mobile infrastructure is able to handle the increased demands while also maintaining security.
Posted: 03 Jun 2008 | Published: 01 Jun 2008
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Best Practices for Home Agents
sponsored by Avaya Inc.
WHITE PAPER: Home agents represent an opportunity to expand and improve your call center team. And they can be a form of insurance to keep your business running if disaster strikes. This white paper contains best practices for developing a Home Agents program.
Posted: 02 Jun 2008 | Published: 01 Feb 2008
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Greener Computing: Five Ways to Transform Your Business
sponsored by Intel Corporation
WHITE PAPER: This paper shows how applying the principles of energy efficiency to your company's computers and servers can improve your productivity and decrease your carbon emissions in very specific ways.
Posted: 29 May 2008 | Published: 28 May 2008
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Business Continuity, Disaster Recovery and Data Center Consolidation
sponsored by F5 Networks
WHITE PAPER: New technologies are changing the way we think about disaster recovery and business continuity. These technologies focus on WAN optimization, traffic redirection, data replication, and secure remote access. This white paper gives the details.
Posted: 28 Apr 2008 | Published: 28 Apr 2008
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BUSINESS CONTINUITY PLANNING DEFINITION (continued): …  services, and to reestablish full functioning as swiftly and smoothly as possible.

Although business continuance is important for any enterprise, it may not be practical for any but the largest to maintain full functioning throughout a disaster crisis. According to many experts, the first step in business continuity planning is deciding which of the organization's functions are essential, and apportioning the available budget accordingly. Once the crucial components are identified, failover … 
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