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“The significant factor in HP Business Continuity and Availability Services is the focus on the customer—a consulting style that has long differentiated its IT services outside the business continuity arena.
HP appears to take BC services seriously, as demonstrated by its investment in the Disaster Tolerant Solutions Center and its service categorizations based on customer needs profiles.
The Compaq acquisition makes available broader hardware support and established low-end support contracts with Recover-All, building availability into data centers and workplace recovery facilities...
Companies that have not considered HP Business Continuity and Availability Services may want to investigate these services further.” Gartner, December 2003
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What is Business Continuity? |
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Business Continuity is not an "all or nothing" proposition; it is more of a spectrum of readiness ranging from industry best practices, such as routine backups which are safely stored offsite, to full-scale continuity plans which may invoke a standby system or activate interim processing using an alternate facility.
Business Continuity is a way of doing business that ensures the infrastructure has the ability to maintain operations in the event of a significant adverse event (physical calamity, sabotage, natural disaster, etc).
Business Continuity is not a specific technology, product, or service. Nor is it a specific implementation of high availability, disaster recovery, or disaster tolerance. These components along with the supporting people and processes are what we deliver to ensure continuous operations.
Many senior managers have been skeptical about investing in business continuity and availability however many events over the last few years have shown that business continuity is no longer an option or a luxury; it's a way of doing business. Planning for business continuity is due diligence and expected of today's business managers.
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Why HP? |
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HP's Business Continuity & Availability Solutions help ensure companies continue their business despite the circumstances-ranging from an application failure to an operator problem, a security breach, or full-scale disaster. These solutions are typically used for critical business processing, as defined by the customer, such as call centers, financial reporting, and even e-mail.
HP can help the customer:
- Identify and mitigate key business risks and exposures using leading technologies and industry best practices
- Measure the business impact of downtime to determine optimal levels and location of investment
- Determine continuity strategies for individual business processes under varying scenarios: IT technologies that support the optimal strategies in an economical way, infrastructure development and implementation to support critical business processes, or critical operations recovery for "survival mode"
- Return to "business as usual
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