By Susan Twombly, May 2006
Business continuity and availability is not just about protecting servers or even entire data centers. It's about protecting your revenue and reputation.
That's why HP takes a strategic, collaborative, holistic approach to help you plan, build and manage resilient operations.
Our comprehensive portfolio of Business Continuity and Availability solutions and services helps you plan proactively and recover readily in the face of business change.
Whether that change is caused by shifting IT demands or a major disaster, we can help you prepare, respond and adapt quickly to lessen risks and continuously maintain business performance.
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A wise choice
A collaborative consulting style, in-depth expertise and proven methodologies, coupled with global coverage and local presence, make HP a wise choice for business continuity.
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Gain a better understanding of continuity needs and the repercussions of downtime with an HP Business Impact Analysis. We'll work with you to identify which business processes are critical to your operations — where uptime is an absolute must — and which have less impact on your bottom line.
Then you can make informed decisions about where to allocate your IT budget from a cost/benefit perspective. If a few seconds of downtime in order processing costs millions, place a robust high-end clustering solution there. Marketing systems can most likely be down longer, so a lower-cost shared infrastructure solution would suffice.
Next, we help you put a business continuity plan in place that addresses the people, processes and technology across your environment, helping you choose solutions that best meet continuity objectives. Ongoing HP consulting services can help you manage and evolve your business continuity plan to deal with change over time.
High availability all comes down to delivering IT as a service. The quality of service directly affects business performance. To keep service levels high and aligned with business demands, you need reliable and flexible solutions that proactively address the full spectrum of availability challenges.
A complete range of High Availability Management solutions from HP work together to keep IT services flowing to users. Start with an IT service management assessment to pinpoint service delivery problems and target improvement areas.
Then select the right mix of software, operating environments, servers and storage to match service-level needs. Take advantage of HP's market-leading software for proactive management and fortify service delivery with Mission Critical Support Services from HP.
Our experts in IT service management can help you continually improve service levels while you increase efficiency, cost control and user satisfaction.
Unexpected outages, changing business models, stricter governmental regulations: They all drive up demand for a higher level of disaster tolerance. You want to do more to safeguard your data, but you worry about the cost and complexity involved.
Let HP help you plan and implement HP Disaster Tolerance solutions to protect your IT operations and data, balancing risks against costs to meet your needs. Putting data replication, failover and storage technology to work across multi-site IT infrastructures, HP helps you create a stable IT environment to prepare for major service disruptions or catastrophes.
For example, you can replicate data across multiple local or remote sites located unlimited distances apart, with automatic or manual failover options to decrease downtime for critical business processes. You can use your backup facilities or an HP recovery center. Opt to manage the environment yourself or let HP manage it for you — just set recovery time objectives and we can take care of the rest.
A successful way to safeguard data is to have multiple layers of protection. You must create a continuum of technology and solutions — used independently or in unison — to prepare for recovery should disaster strike.
While tape storage offers a portable, low-cost option for data storage, you can add a disk array for a two-deep backup and recovery process. Locally replicate information by capturing data snapshots and sending it over a network to a pool of disk storage.
Or send mission-critical data to remote storage systems each time a transaction occurs. If the primary server fails, data can be immediately available for connection to an alternate server anywhere on the network with no data loss. HP clustering solutions offer the highest level of data protection and recovery — with hands-free, complete datacenter failover for peace of mind.
With HP, you can choose different levels of protection and recovery to suit mission-critical needs and your budget.
HP Security solutions help you examine security readiness and requirements — analyzing the nature, impact and frequency of risks across your company.
Based on that information, we can help you develop and deploy solutions, then manage the security-enhanced environment proactively to maintain business continuity and availability. Our comprehensive set of solutions span people, processes and technology to help you achieve regulatory compliance, provide access to authorized users while keeping intruders out, and create a trusted infrastructure that protects your company from internal vulnerabilities.
Find out more about how to lessen risks and heighten resilience across your business. Link to the HP Business Continuity and Availability website today
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