Business Continuity Planning Services
Business continuity requirements continue to grow and change, forcing companies to take a hard look at their round-the-clock operations and increasing service-level demands. Until recently, business continuity planning focused on recovering centralized data centers following a catastrophe, either natural or man-made.
While these measures remain important to disaster planning, the protection they provide is far from adequate for today's distributed computing environments. The goal for companies today is to achieve a state of business continuity, where critical systems and networks are always available. To attain and sustain business continuity, companies must engineer availability, security and reliability into every process from the outset.
PeakData’s Business Continuity Planning Services assist companies in the design, development, implementation, maintenance, and refresh of continuity plans. PeakData’s Business Impact Analysis (BIA) Service helps companies gather information and identify the associated operational and financial impacts of disruptions for an enterprise, system, business unit, or application.
PeakData Services consultants then assist in developing Recovery Time Objectives (RTOs) and Recovery Point Objectives (RPOs) for each business service or function, along with an assessment of the risks to hardware, applications, and data. This allows companies to better prioritize applications, data, functions, and processes by criticality and to establish a recovery hierarchy. Findings are analyzed and documented in a comprehensive report that includes recommendations for improvement and suggested solutions. Key benefits include:
- Managing changes in the business through strategic data protection planning and deployment
- Creating a business continuity plan that considers the impacts of service interruptions, the order of priority for recovery, the technical infrastructure, and any interdependencies
- Minimizing disruption and data loss if and when a service interruption occurs
- Increasing confidence and the sense of security among personnel, suppliers, vendors, partners, investors, and customers