Business Continuance Networking Solution

Business Continuance describes the processes, procedures and technology solutions an organization puts in place to ensure that essential business functions can continue after a disruption. A business continuance plan consists of risk analysis, contingency planning, and a disaster recovery plan that includes technology solutions to address recovery and data protection needs of business-critical applications. Businesses run tens and often hundreds of applications, each of which may have differing continuance requirements from a time to recovery and data-loss perspective. IT groups need a portfolio of solutions that will allow them to match the associated characteristics and cost of a solution to the business impact experienced when the application is down or data is lost. These solutions include:

• High availability Data Center Networking and Storage Area Networks for non-stop access to applications and data
• Synchronized distributed data centers over Metro Optical Networks for continuous service in the event of site disruptions
• Synchronous disk mirroring and replication over Metro Optical Networks for fast recovery and zero data loss
• Asynchronous data replication over IP Networks for remote data protection
• Consolidated backup to tape or near-line disk and remote electronic vaulting over enterprise-wide Storage Networks for consistent protection of distributed data

Each of these solutions requires the appropriate network infrastructure to ensure the specific availability, performance, distance, and latency requirements can be met.

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