Building an enterprise Business Continuity Plan means understanding business functions and implementing measures to ensure that they can continue to operate in the event of an outage or disaster, regardless of the presence of IT capabilities.

Template/Policy

This downtime policy template will help create a baseline for what is considered acceptable or planned downtime of systems and applications. Most assets do not require five-nines or six-nines availability, so a written policy should help...

Failure to follow proper change management processes when adopting infrastructure change increases the number of enterprise system outages and results in severe impact to the business. Executing proper control and management of infrastructure...

Flywheel technology is emerging in the market as a strong alternative to UPS battery-based ride-through systems in the data center. Active Power presents a leading product in the flywheel UPS system market that can decrease downtime, operating...

Statistically speaking, odds are you will never have to invoke your company's DRP (disaster recovery plan). This is cold comfort, however, because disasters care not for statistics. Catastrophes will nullify your ability to deliver IT services...