Business Continuity

Ensure continuity in all your business operations

In an increasingly competitive world, strategic advantage is often achieved through smarter use of business information. The need to maintain access to valuable data, even in the event of a disaster, has never been greater. Ensuring information assets are stored and protected effectively is a priority for all organisations.

The causes of interruptions to normal business operations are many and varied: technology failure, operational error, catastrophic external event, to name a few. Data management technologies can now provide a range of business continuance options that are suited to the needs and size of the organisation.

Insight Offering

Insight’s Business Continuity (BC) Planning provides an independent, best-practice led review of existing BC components: Data Protection; Backup & Restore; Archiving; Disaster Recovery and delivers technology and process recommendations specifically designed to ensure an optimised return to Business As Usual in the event of a disruption.

Insight provides an assessment of current capability for disaster recovery and business continuity compared to the organisation’s business needs. A gap analysis is used to develop a best-in-class strategy that meets the business requirements. The underlying strategy will focus on storing, protecting and retrieving valuable business information in line with industry regulations, acceptable levels of downtime (if any), business processes and criticality of data.

Solution Stages

Assessment

Essential first step in Insight’s BC solutions is a detailed assessment of the existing environment, including systems, storage, applications and business requirements.

Planning & Design

Including integration into existing processes, defined new processes and future scalability considerations. This stage includes the production of a detailed Project Plan with defined checkpoints.

Deployment

Includes Project Management, Project Deployment, Pre-staging and Configuration, Testing, Commissioning, Training and Education, Proof of Concept.

Management

Ongoing management of this solution can be provided by an Insight Support Service which can be tailored to client requirements.

The Benefits

• Reduce the risk of unplanned downtime and the associated costs
• Minimise the risk of data loss through protecting business-critical information
• Compliance with both internal and external regulatory standards
• Eradication of un-necessary duplicated investment or resource
• Simplify local or off-site backup strategies
• Vendor independent approach ensures the appropriate technologies are matched to business requirements

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