Business Continuity

IT Business Continuity Planning

IT Recovery Strategies

Recent events have challenged organizations to prepare for the many scenarios that may threaten their future. These challenges require businesses to expand their strategies beyond the mere emergency response plan or disaster management activities that were previously employed. Organizations now must engage in a comprehensive process described as Business Continuity.

IT Business Continuity Planning

ETS' goal is to work with our clients to develop a written plan that is actionable. We will drive the process for developing a plan that provides your business with "a strategic" direction for surviving typical business interruptions or disasters.

We understand the costs and business constraints that impact an organization's ability to ensure up-time and the recovery of your technology, business, people, and processes; and the importance of providing return on investment.

Our methodology includes some of the following key actions and processes.

• Business Impact Analysis (BIA)
• Definition of Recovery Time (RTO) and Recovery Point (RPO) objectives
• Evaluation of typical business interruption and disaster scenarios
• Plan Development
• Plan Review
• Plan Implementation

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IT Recovery Strategies

Development of a recovery strategy to address potential vulnerabilities is critical to the overall success of any IT Business Continuity Plan.

Once organizations have outlined their potential risk through the development of BIA's and defined RPO and RTO, the next step is to define strategies and their associated costs. ETS works with organizations to develop a recovery strategy that includes the following key steps:

• IT and external site assessment
• Analysis and recommendation of network and telephony infrastructure
• Identification of strategies, options and technologies to support typical recovery scenarios
• Vendor documentation and options
• Recovery strategy budget development

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