Disaster Recovery – An Iron Shield to Business
This paper discusses today’s reality – where everything is unpredictable and disaster can strike business anytime, anywhere. It also focuses on other factors that can significantly impact an organization’s business continuity planning, such as compliance issues. It also addresses the importance of disaster recovery planning and how it is the key to business resiliency for any organization. It covers a business resilience framework, with an object-oriented approach and its benefit to an organization.
A Dynamic Infrastructure addresses today’s resiliency and compliance challenges, and helps companies prepare for the new risks posed by an increasingly connected and collaborative environment. Designed for an instrumented, interconnected and intelligent world, a dynamic infrastructure can transform physical and digital assets into higher valued services that helps address higher service expectations, rising cost pressures and new risks and threats. It lays the foundation for breakthrough productivity, accelerated value creation and support for the faster pace business and society demand.
Progressive organizations recognize the importance of integrating their infrastructure and enabling key applications to be accessible to stakeholders on a near interruption-free basis. Businesses deploying integrated applications can improve their supply chain efficiencies and optimize resources for better control and management. Most importantly, these strategic moves can enable faster decision-making, creating a company that is more agile and responsive to business challenges and opportunities.
The benefits of leveraging new technologies are exponential, but they can also bring unexpected complexity and its attendant additional risk—and increase the impact of downtime.
See Disaster Recovery – An Iron Shield to Business, from IBM and Gartner.
Tags: business resiliency, Dynamic Infrastructure, IBM Gartner
