Customers need sound practices for managing risk, securing customer data, and delivering the IT availability their businesses require to achieve business and operational success. Business Continuity and Availability (BC&A) solutions help customers plan, design, test and deploy end-to-end solutions that help protect operations against diverse downtime threats, and ease recovery in the event of an outage.
A survey commissioned by HP and conducted by GCR Custom Research revealed that more than 80 percent of IT decision-makers at both large and medium-size businesses view business continuity and availability as an increased priority for 2007 and key to sharpening their competitive business edge.
And in an August 2006 study by IT consultants Enterprise Management Associates found nearly one in five enterprises surveyed, and nearly one in three medium-size businesses surveyed, lacked a business continuity plan.
For HP and its Channel Partners, deploying BC&A solutions for customers gives them the ability to meet competitive pressures, maintain uptime, prepare for pandemic outbreaks and improve regulatory compliance, which in the GCR survey ranked as significantly higher priorities in 2007 than in 2006.
According to GCR, customer investments in disaster-tolerant solutions, backup and recovery efforts, security and improved IT service management offerings will also increase in 2007, with nine out of 10 decision-makers reporting higher planned spending. And in the Enterprise Management Associates study, business continuity and disaster recovery was identified as the No.1 driver of virtualization technology among 150 early implementers, providing HP and its Channel Partners further customer engagement opportunities.
HP offers a broad range of BC&A solutions, including:
- Business Continuity Consulting and Business Recovery Services
- Software and Operating Environments through HP-UX Disaster Tolerant Solutions such as HP Serviceguard (also for Linux), HP Integrity NonStop Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery Software, and HP StorageWorks Mirroring
- Hardware based solutions for HP Integrity and HP 9000 Servers, HP ProLiant Clusters, and rack and power infrastructure products
- Storage through HP StorageWorks Enterprise Backup Solution, HP Data Protector, and Multilevel Data Protection and Recovery, HP Continuous Information Capture and Continuous Data Protection
These solutions help customers evaluate preparedness and identify operational risk, define specific continuity needs and objectives, and deploy solutions that get their people and processes back to work quickly in the event of a business interruption.
Find out more about the solutions at Business Continuity & Availability Solutions and services at Business Continuity & Availability Services.
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