Business continuity

Solutions for small and medium business

Solutions for medium business

Over 44% of midsize companies do not have a Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery (BCDR) plan in place. (Aberdeen Report, March 2008). And further investigation has shown that those that do have a BCDR plan may not be adequate enough should a significant disruption occur. The smallest interruption can bring down a business' network and systems if a company is not prepared. Imagine if a major catastrophe hit? Business continuity is not just about recovery from a disaster—it is about maintaining continuous daily operations and keeping your systems and applications available in an "always on" 24x7, global environment. In order for mid-size companies to achieve a state of business continuity, they must adopt proven strategies to keep their critical business processes and information available and reduce the risks associated with downtime—lost revenue, degraded customer confidence, regulatory infractions.

The advantage

IBM and IBM Business Partner solutions can help you better understand the scope of your BCDR needs and provide solutions to help ensure systems availability and avoid loss of data, business, reputation and competitive advantage resulting from deliberate, accidental or unexpected damage to vital IT infrastructure and data. These solutions enable you to anticipate and adjust to circumstances that place your infrastructure at risk, thereby decreasing the possibility of potentially catastrophic disruptions.

Benefits

Our business continuity solutions can help you to:

Minimize costs and business impact of normal outages and disruptions
Identify key recovery issues and critical resources, applications and information needed to continue business in the event of a planned or unplanned outage
Develop a comprehensive business continuity and recovery plan that can predict potential disruptions and maintain availability of business systems and resources
Comply with industry and government regulations

Next steps

Learn more about the range of IBM and IBM Business Partner Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery solutions with the links below. Then contact an IBM Business Solution Specialist to discuss which solution best matches your business needs.

Data backup and replication: Ensure that key data is securely backed up and available in the case of data loss

Data Archiving for Compliance: Safely and securely keep emails from data loss