It’s not just hurricanes, fire or other natureal disasters that can bring a business to its knees. Everyday problems such as bad software, misconfigured networks, hardware failures or power outages are much more common. In fact, power failures accounted for nearly half of the declared disasters reported in a recent survey conducted by Forrester
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This document discusses strategies for data protection and disaster recovery. It explains that disaster recovery aims to recover data after a disaster through procedures and policies, while business continuity focuses on minimizing interruptions through high availability systems. The key is to take a collaborative approach to create smart policies by defining the scope of applications and data to protect, the risks to plan for, and recovery time and point objectives, then selecting appropriate technologies to meet those objectives.
The document discusses disaster recovery planning and provides best practices. It addresses common misperceptions about business continuity/disaster recovery programs. Some misperceptions include that they are too expensive, only involve natural disasters, and that replicating data is sufficient. The document recommends five best practices: developing business justification through impact analysis, matching the recovery approach to needs, setting recovery objectives, developing a data management strategy, and managing the overall recovery program.
Business Continuity for Mission Critical ApplicationsDataCore Software
Unplanned interruption events, a.k.a. “disasters,” hit virtually all data centers at one time or another. While the preponderance of annual downtime results from interruptions that have a limited or localized scope of impact, IT planners must also prepare for the possibility of a catastrophic event with a broader geographical footprint.
Such disasters cannot be circumvented simply by using high availability configurations in servers or storage. What is needed, especially for mission-critical applications and databases, are strategies that can help organizations prevail in the wake of “big footprint” disasters, but that can also be implemented in a more limited way in response to interruption events with a more limited impact profile.
DataCore Software’s storage platform provides several capabilities for data protection and disaster recovery that are well-suited to today’s most mission-critical databases and applications.
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Business Continuity for Mission Critical ApplicationsDataCore Software
Unplanned interruption events, a.k.a. “disasters,” hit virtually all data centers at one time or another. While the preponderance of annual downtime results from interruptions that have a limited or localized scope of impact, IT planners must also prepare for the possibility of a catastrophic event with a broader geographical footprint.
Such disasters cannot be circumvented simply by using high availability configurations in servers or storage. What is needed, especially for mission-critical applications and databases, are strategies that can help organizations prevail in the wake of “big footprint” disasters, but that can also be implemented in a more limited way in response to interruption events with a more limited impact profile.
DataCore Software’s storage platform provides several capabilities for data protection and disaster recovery that are well-suited to today’s most mission-critical databases and applications.
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IN THIS E-GUIDE, LEARN HOW TO:
-Bridge the Gap Between C-Suite Executives and In-House IT Teams
-Calculate the True Cost of Downtime
-Zero In On Infrastructure Vulnerability to Data Center Downtime
-Avoid/Recover Accidental Data Deletion and Employee Created Downtime
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This document discusses several topics related to ambulatory surgery centers (ASCs). It begins by welcoming readers and discussing the benefits of not compromising excellence when evaluating IT systems for ASCs. Systems not designed for ASCs can compromise revenue, costs, and patient care. The document then discusses an upcoming event schedule and introduces the concept of cloud computing, which allows ASCs affordable access to clinical and business software without large upfront hardware costs. It concludes by promoting the products and services of SourceMedical, the largest provider of outpatient IT solutions.
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Data is the lifeblood of every organization yet many either fail to backup their data or they are not doing so properly. Losing data can be catastrophic for a business. This white paper explains why backups are important and the challenges they face.
This document discusses the importance of data protection and business continuity planning given trends like increased virtualization, regulatory mandates around data governance, and greater dependency on IT systems. It notes that while disasters can be catastrophic, most downtime is actually caused by more common issues like equipment failures or human errors. The document then outlines the key components of an effective business continuity plan, with an emphasis on the importance of data recovery. It argues that storage virtualization can help improve data protection by providing integrated services for continuous data protection, replication, and testing in a single management interface. This simplifies configuration, reduces costs, and helps ensure successful recovery.
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continuous availability to its critical data with DataCore. The hospital has also drastically reduced the time spent on routine storage tasks and has reduced storage costs – all
while increasing capacity utilization and increasing the performance of its applications.
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The document is a report from Veeam about enterprise availability. Some key points:
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- Despite investments to modernize data centers, the average number of unplanned downtime events and length of downtime incidents increased since 2014, costing organizations up to $16 million annually on average.
- Users expect real-time access and interactions, placing pressure on organizations to minimize downtime and guarantee access to data through modernizing infrastructure for 24/7 "always-on" operations. However, most organizations still cannot meet these demands.
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This document discusses the importance of HIPAA compliance for organizations serving people with disabilities and the challenges of maintaining compliance with outdated software systems. It notes that HIPAA violations and complaints have increased in recent years. A cloud-based integrated software system can help organizations address HIPAA requirements by securely centralizing information access and updating automatically. The document recommends Intuition by Vertex as a comprehensive software solution designed for rehabilitation organizations that handles administrative tasks and ensures HIPAA compliance.
This document discusses business continuity and disaster recovery planning. It addresses the business drivers for developing such plans, including increased reliance on technology, business complexity, and natural disasters. Compliance concerns for industries like healthcare and e-commerce are also covered. The document then explores various technical considerations for disaster recovery, such as virtualization, data center location, backup options, and best practices. It provides an overview of developing a comprehensive continuity plan to sustain business operations in the event of a disruption.
The document discusses disaster recovery planning and strategies. It notes that over 50% of organizations develop IT disaster recovery plans, but fewer than one-third actually test those plans. It also discusses how budget constraints are leading organizations to consider alternatives like server virtualization and cloud computing to reduce costs associated with disaster recovery. The document provides an overview of different aspects of developing a disaster recovery plan, including defining recovery time objectives, prioritizing applications, replicating data, and assessing risks. It emphasizes the importance of involving business needs in planning and testing plans to ensure the ability to recover critical business functions.
Data is the lifeblood of every organization yet many either fail to backup their data or they are not doing so properly. Losing data can be catastrophic for a business. This white paper explains why backups are important and the challenges they face.
This document discusses the importance of data protection and business continuity planning given trends like increased virtualization, regulatory mandates around data governance, and greater dependency on IT systems. It notes that while disasters can be catastrophic, most downtime is actually caused by more common issues like equipment failures or human errors. The document then outlines the key components of an effective business continuity plan, with an emphasis on the importance of data recovery. It argues that storage virtualization can help improve data protection by providing integrated services for continuous data protection, replication, and testing in a single management interface. This simplifies configuration, reduces costs, and helps ensure successful recovery.
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Hanover Hospital has attained continuous uptime with DataCore SANsymphony-V deployed in a synchronous mirror configuration that ensures data redundancy. What’s
more, high-availability storage at Hanover has significantly reduced the time it takes to provision storage and systems. Bottom-line: Hanover Hospital has realized true
continuous availability to its critical data with DataCore. The hospital has also drastically reduced the time spent on routine storage tasks and has reduced storage costs – all
while increasing capacity utilization and increasing the performance of its applications.
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The document is a report from Veeam about enterprise availability. Some key points:
- 84% of IT leaders surveyed said their organizations have an "availability gap" between what users demand in terms of access to data/applications and what IT can deliver.
- Despite investments to modernize data centers, the average number of unplanned downtime events and length of downtime incidents increased since 2014, costing organizations up to $16 million annually on average.
- Users expect real-time access and interactions, placing pressure on organizations to minimize downtime and guarantee access to data through modernizing infrastructure for 24/7 "always-on" operations. However, most organizations still cannot meet these demands.
The document discusses four pragmatic approaches for organizations to become more resilient to business disruptions without costly disaster recovery plans. It recommends focusing on individual workloads, common application architectures, specific applications, and managing scope of protection for a practical approach to resiliency. Rackspace believes these approaches can help organizations protect against disruptions in a cost-effective manner rather than ignoring the risks completely.
The document provides information about Innovative Consulting & Technology Inc., an IT services firm. It summarizes the company's capabilities such as computer network services, data recovery engineering, biometric access solutions, and IT project management. It also lists certifications and some client examples.
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Charities and other not-for-profit businesses tackle everyday business issues differently, which impacts on how big a difference they can make with the funds they have. We identified eight common issues our NFP customers faced, and examples of how they overcome it by using operational intelligence.
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This document discusses the importance of HIPAA compliance for organizations serving people with disabilities and the challenges of maintaining compliance with outdated software systems. It notes that HIPAA violations and complaints have increased in recent years. A cloud-based integrated software system can help organizations address HIPAA requirements by securely centralizing information access and updating automatically. The document recommends Intuition by Vertex as a comprehensive software solution designed for rehabilitation organizations that handles administrative tasks and ensures HIPAA compliance.
This document discusses business continuity and disaster recovery planning. It addresses the business drivers for developing such plans, including increased reliance on technology, business complexity, and natural disasters. Compliance concerns for industries like healthcare and e-commerce are also covered. The document then explores various technical considerations for disaster recovery, such as virtualization, data center location, backup options, and best practices. It provides an overview of developing a comprehensive continuity plan to sustain business operations in the event of a disruption.
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1) Natural disasters and outages cost businesses billions annually. Virtualization allows businesses to run multiple operating systems and applications on a single machine, increasing efficiency. It also enables easy copying of "virtual machines" for offsite backup and fast disaster recovery.
2) With virtualization, applications and data can be restored in hours versus days for tape-based systems. Backup copies of virtual machines are fully maintained for quick failover.
3) Adopting a virtualization solution with a solid recovery plan can help businesses survive disasters by restoring systems within hours instead of closing due to extended outages.
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“Business Continuity And Disaster Recovery Are Top IT Priorities For 2010 And 2011”
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• IT plans to spend at least 5% more on BC/DR in the next 12 months (only 11% of enterprises and 8% of SMBs plan to decrease spending on BC/DR)
• BC/DR represents between 6% and 7% of the IT budget
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This document provides an overview of disaster recovery and business continuity strategies for data protection. It discusses that both disaster recovery (DR) and business continuity (BC) aim to allow organizations to continue functioning if disaster strikes by deploying correct policies, procedures, and technology layers. DR focuses on data recovery after a disaster, while BC aims to minimize business interruption through high availability systems and near-instant failover. The document outlines the key steps to building a coherent BC/DR policy, including defining scope, risks, requirements, and appropriate technological building blocks like backup software, virtualization, replication, and hardware solutions. It emphasizes the importance of involving business stakeholders in decision making.
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Business Continuity and Disaster Recover
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Introduction
Organizations grow by providing needed products and services. Overtime, successful
companies will grow as they continue to fill the need of their customer base. This
includes providing the product and services in a predictable fashion that the client base
has grown to expect. Sometimes disasters occur which are unexpected. These disasters
take various forms and can be caused by various events. Some disasters are manmade and
some are not. Generally, the disasters are not predictable when they happen.
Organizations need to prepare for these disasters. They need to have a plan that protects
their assets, the assets of their clients and provides for continuing business according to
their service level agreements.
The outages that result from a disaster can range from a nuisance to a full blown
catastrophe. Consider an outage that occurs to a computer system that is controlling an
online gaming site, versus an outage to a computer system controlling a nuclear reactor or
hospital intensive care until.
If something interrupts an organizations ability to provide their product and services
clients will quickly seek other alternatives.
Sudden interruptions in the delivery of an organizations product and services can occur in
a variety of ways; consider the following few:
Natural disasters such as earthquakes, fire, floods.
When Japan was hit by an earthquake, tsunami and nuclear plant breach their
infrastructure was devastated. Many dependent businesses thousands of miles
away were affected by the inability of the Japanese manufacturers to deliver on
manufacturing commitments such as automobiles and auto parts. The lack of parts
impacted car dealers and car users the world over. Similarly, when Thailand was
hit by floods their ability to deliver disk drives and other semi-conductor parts to
computer manufacturers forced these manufacturers to seek alternate suppliers.
In both these cases organizations that relied on Japan and Thailand to deliver
products to them had to have contingency plans in place for their supply chain.
Without a business continuity plan that had contingencies for alternate suppliers
customers would turn to other alternatives.
Job actions such as: strikes, slowdowns, walkouts
Airline pilots go on strike; forcing customers to seek alternate means of travel for
personal use and business. In some cases, people were forced to seek alternatives
to travel. In some cases business travel was replaced with technology alternatives
such as video conferencing, messages and email. Personal travel was supplanted
with train travel and trips closer to home that could be done with an automobile.
There isn’t much of a contingency for not having trained pilots. But part of a
disaster recovery plan would be to have some good-will gestures in place to win
back the customer base ...
This document discusses business continuity and disaster recovery. It defines key terms, noting that business continuity focuses on restoring business processes while disaster recovery focuses on restoring IT infrastructure. A business impact analysis is identified as the first step in developing a business continuity strategy. This involves assessing critical business processes, resources, impacts of downtime, and recovery time objectives. Finally, the document outlines developing a business continuity plan, including identifying recovery locations, procedures, and resources as well as the importance of testing plans.
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1) The document discusses best practices for disaster recovery and business continuity planning. It provides an example of how OSI Restaurant Partners implemented a successful DR plan with Qwest that allowed them to recover from a potential power outage within 3 hours instead of being down for 8 hours.
2) The document outlines the importance of disaster recovery and business continuity planning to maintain operations despite natural disasters, outages, or security incidents. It discusses common threats that businesses face and the need for proactive rather than reactive planning.
3) The document recommends adopting standards like the National Fire Protection Association 1600 for establishing specifications around critical functions, application recovery plans, data center failover, and testing DR plans. Cross-functional support and educating leadership on
Office 2007 In Business Continuity Whitepaper: Microsoft CorporationMary Marks
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Allianz Indonesia generously participated in a video to show how Groove 2007 helps their organization provide superior customer service, even during times of crisis. You can find the video here
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The document provides information about ISO 22301, which is an international standard for business continuity management systems (BCMS). Some key points covered include:
- ISO 22301 helps organizations implement a BCMS to meet stakeholder requirements and be resilient during disruptions.
- A BCMS aims to establish, implement, maintain and improve business continuity processes. It specifies requirements around preparing for, responding to and recovering from disruptions.
- Other concepts discussed include business impact analysis, business continuity plans, maximum acceptable outage times, and residual risks after risk reduction efforts.
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Washington Trust bank needed to upgrade its network to support growing application and traffic demands. Its traditional frame relay technology could not provide sufficient scalability, disaster recovery capabilities, or security. The bank worked with CenturyLink to implement an IP-based migration to CenturyLink IQ Networking, which provided private ports for any-to-any connectivity and increased bandwidth. This eased adding new locations and managing network growth. CenturyLink also provided enhanced security through a private MPLS network and disaster recovery by adding connectivity to a secondary data center. The new solution allowed for more efficient network management and support of the bank's continued growth.
CenturyLink Case Study Childrens HospitalJake Weaver
The Children's Hospital of Denver moved to a larger location and brought its outsourced data center in-house, requiring an efficient connectivity solution to connect its locations and support high-bandwidth needs. It evaluated three local vendors and selected CenturyLink's Metro Ethernet service, which connects 15 sites and improved patient care through real-time image sharing between doctors while saving $960,000 annually through service consolidation.
University federal credit union case studyJake Weaver
University Federal Credit Union (UFCU) implemented CenturyLink's Metro Ethernet service to replace its vulnerable hub and spoke network with a more reliable meshed architecture. This provided increased bandwidth between UFCU's 14 branches and data centers to support server virtualization and larger backup files. The Metro Ethernet service boosted branch bandwidth by 233% and data center bandwidth by 900%, improving application performance. UFCU also consolidated its internet, data, and phone services with CenturyLink. This reduced telecom expenses by 15% monthly, allowing UFCU to achieve a return on investment within 2.5 years. The new network architecture with CenturyLink enhanced redundancy and ensured continuity of operations for UFCU's online banking customers.
A furniture company implemented a standardized Cisco IP phone system across its five Washington state offices to replace aging phone systems. This reduced annual maintenance costs by $10,000 and is expected to save thousands in long-distance fees over five years. The new system is easier to administer remotely and supports improved productivity features like unified messaging. CenturyLink provided the Cisco phones, Unified Communications Manager, and IQ Private Port MPLS service between offices.
Managed security services for financial services firmsJake Weaver
This document discusses managed security services for financial services firms. It notes that financial services firms are under constant attack from sophisticated cyber threats. Maintaining strong security in-house is challenging due to the evolving threat landscape and constant change. The document recommends that firms consider purchasing managed security services from expert providers. This outsourced approach can provide state-of-the-art protection that is more effective and less costly than building internal security capabilities. Key benefits of managed services include distributed denial of service (DDoS) mitigation, web application protection, and access to security expertise.
SIP Trunking - The cornerstone of unified communicationsJake Weaver
SIP trunks perform some key call and session control and management functions, and serve in place of traditional access lines and trunks.ix Typically provisioned by carriers over T1 trunks, carrier-based SIP trunk services interface between carriers’ nodes and SIP-enabled customer premises equipment, such as a SIP gateway or IP PBX.x SIP Trunks also interconnect customer sites with hosted VOIP/IP centrex services, cloud/software as a service (SaaS) applications, and facilitate customer connectivity with IMS-based applications, like single number service (see sidebar). At the carrier, SIP Trunks interconnect to IP-based WAN services, VOIP/multimedia-enabled network nodes and from these, to the public switched telephone network (PSTN).
What if you had one provider, one ally on your side, to smartly bring together the parts that make you whole without limitations – so you can grow, improve your products and services, increase sales, and unleash the capabilities that enables your IT to drive real change for your company?
This document provides an overview of the TCP/IP and OSI networking models, including:
1) Both models use a layered approach and were developed around the same time for standardizing network protocols, with TCP/IP focusing on practical implementation and OSI aiming for strict layering.
2) TCP/IP became the dominant model due to its flexibility and simplicity, while OSI provided a structured way to describe network functions.
3) Key protocols are mapped to their corresponding layers in each model, showing how they achieve similar communication goals with different approaches.
This document discusses how CenturyLink Enterprise Cloud Networking can help businesses address competitive pressures and achieve business agility. It outlines challenges such as limited resources, needing to stay ahead of competitors, and connecting with customers. It then provides examples of how the cloud helped companies launch a social media site quickly, prove application value without large upfront costs, and deploy a full data center on demand. The cloud promises performance, control, and speed at a lower cost than traditional infrastructure by allowing businesses to pay only for what they use. CenturyLink offers enterprise-level infrastructure in the cloud with benefits for IT, financial, and business perspectives.
Centurylink Business Technology in 2020 ebookJake Weaver
By 2020, technology experts foresee that computational power will become invisible in size due to advances in chip technology. This will allow any object to become a computer, requiring people to consider how to best use all of this intelligence. Three trends will transform business - machine-to-machine technology and analytics, mobility, and cognitive computing. Additionally, the last corporate data center is expected to shut its doors as cloud computing becomes the primary method for IT infrastructure and services.
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CenturyLink - Moneytree MPLS Case StudyJake Weaver
Moneytree, Inc. is a financial services company with 140 branches across 5 western states that provides check cashing, payday loans, and other services. It migrated from a distributed IT architecture to a centralized model where all processing is done at its main data center and branches access applications over the network. After evaluating 4 vendors, it selected CenturyLink's IQ Networking Private Port Service, an MPLS network connecting all branches to the data center. This provided greater bandwidth at lower cost than the previous solution. It improved reliability, reduced administration hours, and eliminated slow application responses. The scalable network also facilitates opening new branches easily as the company grows.
CenturyLink - Life Lock Call Center Case StudyJake Weaver
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Isabella Bank migrated from an aging Frame Relay system to CenturyLink's IQ Private Port and Long Distance services to implement a cost-saving VoIP project and gain quality of service capabilities. Working with CenturyLink specialists, the bank installed Private Port circuits at 22 locations and transitioned long-distance contracts to CenturyLink's service. This reduced expenses by up to 66% compared to their previous provider and lowered long-distance rates. The reliable IP-based network allowed them to successfully deploy VoIP while the Control Center application simplified administration of consolidated phone bills.
Washington Trust bank needed to upgrade its network to support growing application and traffic demands. Its traditional frame relay technology could not provide sufficient scalability, disaster recovery capabilities, or security. The bank worked with CenturyLink to implement an IP-based migration to CenturyLink IQ Networking, which provided private ports for any-to-any connectivity and increased bandwidth. This eased adding new locations and managing network growth. CenturyLink also provided enhanced security through a private MPLS network and disaster recovery by adding connectivity to a secondary data center. The new solution allowed for more efficient network management and support of the bank's growth opportunities.
Centurylink - Sun National Bank Case StudyJake Weaver
IT managers at Sun National Bank wanted to improve employee productivity and customer responsiveness. As their communications contract was ending, they chose CenturyLink's Managed VoIP solution. CenturyLink and Sun technicians installed new phones and equipment at Sun's 70 New Jersey locations. This converged voice and data solution reduced Sun's expenses by 25% and allowed staff reassignment, improving the customer experience.
American hospital association case studyJake Weaver
The American Hospital Association (AHA) represents hospitals and healthcare providers. To manage their IT infrastructure and 70+ websites, AHA transitioned from an in-house solution to a fully managed hosting solution provided by Savvis. Savvis tailored a solution to meet AHA's needs, providing utility services, managed hosting, and network redundancy across multiple data centers. This allowed AHA to focus on its core healthcare business while Savvis ensured business continuity and minimal downtime during the transition.
Cloud computing is now a viable option for businesses seeking to outsource part or all of their IT operations. But in this new era — where the power of the Internet is harnessed for IT tasks — outsourcing to the cloud can be a strategic maneuver, not just a cost-cutting measure.
HR search is critical to a company's success because it ensures the correct people are in place. HR search integrates workforce capabilities with company goals by painstakingly identifying, screening, and employing qualified candidates, supporting innovation, productivity, and growth. Efficient talent acquisition improves teamwork while encouraging collaboration. Also, it reduces turnover, saves money, and ensures consistency. Furthermore, HR search discovers and develops leadership potential, resulting in a strong pipeline of future leaders. Finally, this strategic approach to recruitment enables businesses to respond to market changes, beat competitors, and achieve long-term success.
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A select set of project management best practices to keep your project on-track, on-cost and aligned to scope. Many firms have don't have the necessary skills, diligence, methods and oversight of their projects; this leads to slippage, higher costs and longer timeframes. Often firms have a history of projects that simply failed to move the needle. These best practices will help your firm avoid these pitfalls but they require fortitude to apply.