Highly available, secure and rapidly recoverable information systems are mission-crucial to your business, whether it is a healthcare facility, a financial service company, an e-commerce retailer, a government agency or another corporate or public sector entity.

Your business information is an essential requirement for communicating about and running your business, as well as a true asset that returns value. This makes your data, and the systems on which it resides, vulnerable in new ways every day. System downtime or failure, missing or corrupted data and security threats mean significant regulatory compliance violations, dramatic revenue loss and much more.

Key Partners:

• HP, Microsoft, Cisco, Citrix, VMware, Symantec, IBM, Overland Storage, Intel, RSA Security, APC, Brocade, Computer Associates

BUSINESS CONTINUITY CONSULTING

Derive takes a systemic, holistic, managed service approach to creating Business Continuity roadmaps. Disaster Recovery and High Availability plans start with an analysis of the ways you conduct your business and your goals. To achieve this, our certified project managers and consultants collaborate with your executive, business end-user, technology and compliance teams to gain an understanding of, and to plan and implement the required steps to protect and make highly available, your critical business systems and data.

We call upon our two-plus decades of experience in designing and implementing high availability, data replication and business continuity infrastructures, as well as industry-standard and real world best-practices and automated tools, to keep you Always On and achieve your service level requirements.

Our Business Continuity consulting solutions encompass:

• Planning: Service levels and budget.
• Assessment: Of your business culture, processes and goals.
• Identification of key individuals: Those professionals within your organization who are responsible for recovery efforts.
• Discovery of the fiscal impacts of downtime.
• Comprehensive evaluation: Of the availability and recoverability of all of your systems, applications and data.
• Storage and backup solutions: Notation of up-time windows for critical functions and deployment of services and technologies to improve these processes.
• Identification of potential threats: From natural and man-made disasters and security threats to systems, applications, data and business processes.
• Peripheral requirements: Economical solutions for constant refresh of printers, copiers, fax machines, calculators, etc.

We then help you to construct a realistic, cost-effective, Always-On, Business Continuity strategy comprising some, or all, of the following:

• Crisis management team development.
• Legal policies.
• Regulatory policies: System and data availability requirements for compliance with Sarbanes-Oxley, Gramm-Leach-Billey, Patriot Act, HIPAA, EPA, CDC, Basel II, ERISA, the Turnbull Report, etc.
• Change management processes.
• Communication management.
• Critical system and data management plan.
• Critical application management plan: Including a rapid response plan for re-deploying applications.
• Backup strategy.
• Data, system, and application security strategy.
• Co-location and replication strategy: Including systems, data replication methodology and applications that are required for main and co-located sites.
• Failover and manual workaround solutions.
• System selection processes: Budget planning and IT expertise for the selection of cost-effective new systems, applications and services to better support your High Availability and Disaster Recovery needs.

Key Benefits:

• Dramatic increases in business availability and revenue.
• Protection: Of inestimably valuable information resources.
• Timely response: To business downtime and competitive requirements.
• Greater peace of mind and increased productivity: Through systemic, automated and streamlined recovery processes.
• Reduction of human error.
• Clearly defined Business Continuity processes.