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ALSO CALLED: Continuity Planning, 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 services, and to reestablish full functioning as swiftly and smoothly as possible. Although business continuance … Definition continues below.
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Reducing Corporate Risk: Best Practices Data Protection Strategy for Remote and Branch Offices (ROBOs) sponsored by i365, A Seagate Company WHITE PAPER: This white paper examines the vulnerabilities of today’s remote and branch office IT landscape, and details the advantages of a disk-based backup and recovery strategy for managing and protecting the data contained in these systems. Posted: 16 Nov 2009 \| Published: 16 Nov 2009 TOPICS: Backups \| Business Continuity Planning \| Online Backups \| Remote Backups \| Remote Computing \| Remote Network Management \| Remote Office Connectivity \| Remote Offices \| ROBO

Five Cost-Effective Ways to Enable Fast Recovery sponsored by i365, A Seagate Company WHITE PAPER: This white paper reviews options for a multifaceted recovery strategy, ensuring that your key systems are protected with maximum efficiency at minimal cost. Posted: 16 Nov 2009 \| Published: 16 Nov 2009 TOPICS: Backups \| Business Continuity Planning \| Continuous Data Protection \| Data Loss Prevention (DLP) \| Data Recovery \| Data Storage \| Disaster Planning \| Disaster Recovery \| Downtime

Assuring User Identities During a Business Disruption: Applying a Consistent Strong Authentication Policy to Business Continuity Planning sponsored by RSA, The Security Division of EMC WHITE PAPER: This white paper examines the importance of maintaining a consistent two-factor authentication policy during a business disruption. In addition, it provides insight into how to develop plans that enable cost-effective, rapid binding of users to their credentials in the event of an emergency. Read on to learn more. Posted: 12 Nov 2009 \| Published: 12 Nov 2009 TOPICS: Authentication \| Authorization \| Business Continuity Planning \| ERP \| Identity Management \| Password Authentication Protocol \| Password Management \| Password Management Software

Leveraging Virtualisation for a Competitive Edge Improve Application Availability and Resource Provisioning sponsored by Virtustream WHITE PAPER: This paper will discuss the 5 areas of Virtualisation technology and introduce you to a virtualized framework solution from Virtustream that will not only provide the maximum ROI, but will address issues from a business perspective as well as an IT perspective, with a constant eye on the calculator for any business investment - your TCO. Posted: 11 Nov 2009 \| Published: 11 Nov 2009 TOPICS: Applications Software \| Business Continuity Planning \| Data Center Infrastructure Efficiency \| Data Center Management \| Disaster Recovery \| Downtime \| High Availability \| ROI \| Server Virtualization Software \| Storage Virtualization \| TCO

Backup and Recovery Challenges with SharePoint sponsored by Mimosa Systems UK WHITE PAPER: This whitepaper will discuss the challenges you can have to backup and protect using native tools and how you can successfully protect your SharePoint environment using Mimosa NearPoint™ for SharePoint. Posted: 10 Nov 2009 \| Published: 10 Nov 2009 TOPICS: Backup Software \| Backups \| Business Continuity Planning \| Data Recovery \| Databases \| Electronic Discovery Software \| IT Infrastructure \| IT Managers \| SQL

Top 10 Ways to Optimize Remote Office Disaster Recovery sponsored by Zenith Infotech WHITE PAPER: Dealing with disasters at remote offices, where you likely have little or no technical staff, can be challenging—and, if you're not careful, expensive. Here are our top 10 tips for optimizing branch office DR while achieving overall improvements in cost efficiency. Posted: 29 Oct 2009 \| Published: 29 Oct 2009 TOPICS: Business Continuity Planning \| Cloud Computing \| Disaster Recovery \| Disk Backups \| Downtime \| Remote Office Connectivity \| ROBO \| RPO \| RTO \| Server Virtualization \| SMBs

Advanced Data Protection and Disaster Recovery sponsored by Syncsort WHITE PAPER: Coupling NetApp’s SnapMirror and SnapVault technology with Syncsort’s BEX software has created an integrated disk-based solution for data protection and disaster recovery of mission-critical digital assets. Within minutes of an outage or disaster, applications, databases and users can be accessing data and resuming business. Posted: 27 Oct 2009 \| Published: 27 Oct 2009 TOPICS: Business Continuity Planning \| Business Continuity Planning Software \| Disaster Planning \| Disaster Recovery \| Storage Best Practices \| Storage Management \| Storage Resource Management \| Storage Systems \| Storage Virtualization \| Storage Virtualization Software

Next Generation Backup for Remote Offices sponsored by Double-Take Software UK WHITE PAPER: Relying on tape backup for branch-office data protection is costly and risky. This white paper examines some of the strategies and technologies available for backing up remote or branch offices. Posted: 23 Oct 2009 \| Published: 23 Oct 2009 TOPICS: Backups \| Business Continuity Planning \| Cloud Computing \| Continuous Data Protection \| Disaster Planning \| Disaster Recovery \| Disk Backups \| European Union \| RPO \| RTO \| Tape Backups

A Practical Guide to Disaster Recovery Planning: The Basics to Getting Started sponsored by Double-Take Software UK WHITE PAPER: This paper is intended to help simplify the process of starting a disaster recovery plan so as not to be so overwhelming. Through some basic steps, businesses can better protect themselves against data loss while working toward a more complete business continuity plan. Posted: 23 Oct 2009 \| Published: 23 Oct 2009 TOPICS: Business Continuity Planning \| Data Center Management \| Data Recovery \| Disaster Planning \| Disaster Recovery \| Downtime \| RPO \| RTO \| Storage Best Practices \| Tape Backups

Wireless in Business Continuity Planning sponsored by AT&T Corp WHITE PAPER: Increasingly WAN-centric enterprises make mobile equipment and services more important for business continuity. To determine the role wireless should play in an organization's business continuity plan, IT should consider a mix of factors including type of business, physical locations and applications. Read on to learn more. Posted: 19 Oct 2009 \| Published: 19 Oct 2009 TOPICS: Business Continuity Planning \| Disaster Recovery \| Mobile Device Management \| Mobile Workers \| Wireless Computing \| Wireless Hardware \| Wireless Infrastructure \| Wireless Networks \| Wireless WAN

Getting Personal with Business Continuity: Five Critical Success Factors in Overcoming Workforce Disruptions sponsored by IBM WHITE PAPER: This white paper addresses the critical factors you need to address when dealing with workforce disruption, including threats like pandemics. Posted: 06 Oct 2009 \| Published: 06 Oct 2009 TOPICS: Business Continuation Services \| Business Continuity Planning \| Business Continuity Planning Software \| Business Intelligence \| Business Performance Management \| Disaster Planning \| Disaster Recovery

Dynamic Infrastructure - Helping Build a Smarter Planet: Delivering Superior Business and IT Services with Agility and Speed sponsored by IBM WHITE PAPER: IBM has developed a strategy for a dynamic infrastructure that will help organizations address higher service expectations, rising cost pressures and new risks and threats. Posted: 02 Oct 2009 \| Published: 02 Oct 2009 TOPICS: Business Continuity Planning \| Business Intelligence \| Business Management \| Business Service Management \| Infrastructure Management \| Infrastructure Services \| SOA

IT Administrators Discuss New Ways to Protect Enterprise Data sponsored by Data Domain WHITE PAPER: This paper chronicles the implementations and results of three enterprises that addressed their data protection issues using Data Domain enterprise protection storage systems. Posted: 29 Sep 2009 \| Published: 29 Sep 2009 TOPICS: Backups \| Business Continuity Planning \| Continuous Data Protection \| Disk Backups \| Disk Storage Systems \| Disk-to-Disk-to-Tape \| Storage Security \| Tape Backups

Business Process Management Enabled by SOA sponsored by PointSource WHITE PAPER: The purpose in this IBM Redpaper is to introduce you to the concepts used in the IBM BPM Enabled by SOA methodology. The IBM® Business Process Management (BPM) Enabled by SOA Method provides a structured process for developing an organization's cross-functional, customer-focused, end-to-end core business processes. Posted: 29 Sep 2009 \| Published: 29 Sep 2009 TOPICS: Business Continuity Planning \| Business Management \| Business Performance Management \| Business Process Management \| Business Service Management \| SOA \| SOA Governance

Six Mistakes Companies are Making Today and How You Can Avoid Them sponsored by SAP AG WHITE PAPER: This paper highlights common mistakes companies make in a down economy and discusses how organizations can use business intelligence to avoid them. Use the self-assessment questionnaire at the end of this paper to determine the level of business intelligence opportunity across your organization. Posted: 28 Sep 2009 \| Published: 28 Sep 2009 TOPICS: Business Continuity Planning \| Business Intelligence \| Business Management \| Business Performance Management \| CEOs \| CFOs \| CIOs \| Cost Benefit Analysis \| Decision Support Systems \| ROI \| Strategic Planning

Making Strategy Real sponsored by SAP AG WHITE PAPER: How can management communicate business strategy effectively and assure that the entire organization has bought in to the strategy and is aligned behind it? Business performance optimization systems are an important tool for success. Posted: 25 Sep 2009 \| Published: 25 Sep 2009 TOPICS: Business Continuity Planning \| Business Environment \| Business Intelligence \| Business Management \| Business Performance Management \| Business Structures \| CIOs \| Decision Support Systems \| Economic Environment \| Global Economy \| Globalization \| SAP (Product)

Email Archiving: Mitigate Risk - Managing Compliance, eDiscovery, and Records Requests sponsored by Mirapoint Software, Inc. WHITE PAPER: Learn the importance of email archiving and how it can help solve the many challenges facing organizations today with compliance, continuity in business knowledge, data retention policies and requests for electronic discovery. Posted: 18 Sep 2009 \| Published: 18 Sep 2009 TOPICS: Backups \| Business Continuity Planning \| Data Security \| Electronic Discovery \| Email Archiving \| Email Archiving Software \| Email Management \| Email Server Software \| Messaging Security \| Regulatory Compliance \| SLA

Oracle Crystal Ball: Dramatically Improve the Quality of Your Strategic Business Decisions sponsored by Oracle Corporation WHITE PAPER: Increase revenue. Decrease costs. Reduce development time. Every day you strive to meet these goals. And each business decision you make either enables you to advance toward them - or impedes your progress. Read this paper to learn more. Posted: 16 Sep 2009 \| Published: 16 Sep 2009 TOPICS: Balanced Scorecards \| Business Continuity Planning \| Business Development \| Business Intelligence \| Information Management \| Oracle (Product) \| Reporting Software \| Spreadsheets

Managing Risk and Uncertainty - An Executive's Guide to Integrated Business Planning sponsored by Oracle Corporation WHITE PAPER: Read this white paper to learn how Integrated business planning can help your company align strategic, operational, and financial plans. Posted: 16 Sep 2009 \| Published: 16 Sep 2009 TOPICS: Business Continuity Planning \| Business Development \| Business Intelligence \| Data Management \| Data Security \| Risk Assessment \| Risk Management

Step Up Your Strategy – Fine-Tune Use of Storage Availability Processes as a Part of a Business-Continuity Plan sponsored by CDW Corporation WHITE PAPER: Business continuity (BC) and disaster recovery (DR) should be major components of any risk-management strategy. After all, no business wants to be caught unprepared for unforeseen events such as floods, fires, terrorist attacks, power outages or other disturbances. That's why planning and regularly testing BC and DR programs is essential. Posted: 08 Sep 2009 \| Published: 08 Sep 2009 TOPICS: Business Continuity Planning \| Continuous Data Protection \| Disaster Planning \| Disaster Recovery \| Downtime \| Storage Infrastructure \| Storage Management \| Storage Security \| Terrorism

How to sell business continuity to management in tough times sponsored by CDW Corporation WHITE PAPER: Although more companies than ever have continuity plans, an AT&T study discovered that a high percentage of those plans are outdated. If your company is one of those with an outdated plan or no plan, here are some things that might help them understand the importance of good continuity planning. Posted: 08 Sep 2009 \| Published: 08 Sep 2009 TOPICS: Business Continuity Planning \| Data Center Management \| Data Governance \| Data Recovery \| Data Security \| Data Storage \| Disaster Planning \| Disaster Recovery \| Downtime \| Storage Management

Preparing to Stay in Business - Storage Continuity Critical in 24-Hour World sponsored by CDW Corporation WHITE PAPER: You probably think it couldn't happen to you, but disastrous events occur more often than not. Perhaps not a hurricane or earthquake or malicious attack, but there are potential risks for every business. Developing a solid data-recovery plan can keep your business up and running in the event of a disaster or other unfortunate event. Posted: 08 Sep 2009 \| Published: 08 Sep 2009 TOPICS: Business Continuity Planning \| Data Center Infrastructure Efficiency \| Data Centers \| Data Recovery \| Data Security \| Data Storage \| Disaster Planning \| Disaster Recovery \| Malware \| Security Threats \| Storage Best Practices \| Storage Management \| Storage Security

Datacenter Management Optimization with Microsoft System Center sponsored by Microsoft WHITE PAPER: System Center lowers the cost of delivering datacenter services through integrated, end-to-end management of physical and virtual environments, and supports the optimization of the datacenter in three primary ways. Each of these benefits, and the solutions that enable them, are discussed in this paper. Posted: 08 Sep 2009 \| Published: 08 Sep 2009 TOPICS: Business Continuity Planning \| Compliance (Systems Operations) \| Data Center Management \| Data Center Power Management \| Data Centers \| Microsoft Hyper-V \| Server Consolidation \| Server Management

Disaster Plan - New Technologies Put Fresh Wrinkles in Business-Continuity / Disaster-Recovery Planning sponsored by CDW Corporation WHITE PAPER: Business continuity/disaster recovery requires a holistic approach that includes storage, infrastructure, servers, applications, middleware and the network. If that weren't complicated enough, today's new technologies are testing traditional methods of backup and data protection. It's time to take another look at your BC/DR plan. Posted: 08 Sep 2009 \| Published: 08 Sep 2009 TOPICS: Backups \| Business Continuity Planning \| Data Center Infrastructure Efficiency \| Data Center Management \| Data Centers \| Data Recovery \| Data Security \| Data Storage \| Disaster Planning \| Disaster Recovery \| Downtime \| Power Blackouts

Disaster Got You Down? sponsored by CDW Corporation WHITE PAPER: While trying to predict an outage is impossible, being prepared for one is not. Having the right tools in place to respond to a "disaster" is essential to sustaining a successful organization. A business-continuity / disaster-recovery plan can help you cut costs by avoiding downtime, lost revenue and dissatisfied customers. Posted: 08 Sep 2009 \| Published: 08 Sep 2009 TOPICS: Backups \| Business Continuity Planning \| Continuous Data Protection \| Data Center Management \| Data Centers \| Data Governance \| Data Management \| Data Recovery \| Data Security \| Data Storage \| Disaster Planning \| Disaster Recovery \| Downtime \| Storage Security

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BUSINESS CONTINUITY PLANNING DEFINITION (continued): … 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 mechanisms can be put in place. New technologies, such as disk mirroring over the Internet, make it feasible for an organization to maintain up-to-date copies of data in geographically dispersed locations, so that data …
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