Business Continuity
Business Continuity is a business best practice detailing how your organization recovers and restores partially or completely interrupted critical business functions within a predetermined time following a disaster or extended interruption.Logicalis’ Business Continuity practice helps you better prepare for incidents that could jeopardize your company's long-term health and core missions. Effective continuity planning often means the difference between uninterrupted, efficient operations and unproductive, costly downtime. Logicalis' Business Continuity practice keeps your organization up and running, minimizing downtime and mitigating technology and information losses.
Key Features of the Logicalis Business Continuity Approach
Logicalis approaches Business Continuity from the standpoint of service-oriented business continuity. This approach focuses on recovery of business processes, rather than software, hardware and systems. The major advantage of looking at Business Continuity this way is it allows recovery based on the prioritized needs of your business. The cost-to-recover can be calculated at a business-service level, helping to prioritize and appropriately budget for what needs to be done first.
Service-oriented business continuity comprises four steps. Depending on your requirements, we can engage on individual phases or deliver a complete project that incorporates all of the following:
Planning: This first step helps draw a picture of your requirements, including risk assessment, vulnerability analysis, project management and identification of threats.
Deliverable: Risk and threat assessment
Strategy: This step allows us to define needs, including valuing business services, performing business impact analysis, defining recovery time objectives and determining minimum operating resources.
Deliverable: Business impact analysis and business service prioritization
Execution: Step 3 ensures the strategy can be successfully executed. This is accomplished by forming teams and assigning roles and responsibilities, obtaining management buy-in, creating the disaster recovery plan (DRP), and testing the nodes and interruption scenarios.
Deliverable: Complete business continuity plan
Maturity: Business Continuity is a practice that requires oversight. Follow-on services include managing the mature disaster recovery plan, spot testing and exercising assets, adjusting for business reorganization and allocating for new business services.
Deliverable: Updated business continuity plan as needed
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