Beyond disaster recovery: becoming a resilient business
The subject of business resilience has been much discussed by business continuity professionals over the past few months and this paper provides a timely technical overview. It is slightly ‘salesy’ in parts but contains more than enough ‘meat’ to make it well worth reading. Executive summary for your business, while others bring challenges and sometimes even threats. But no matter what, your business has to be responsive and resilient — seamlessly taking advantage of opportunities while mitigating risks. Your IT infrastructure must be designed to help ensure the continuity of your business operations in the event of an unexpected disruption, and to secure data integrity. It also must help you comply with government regulations and integrate risk strategies to reduce costs, and it must be able to scale rapidly and automatically as the market changes. To help organizations understand and manage the process of becoming resilient, IBM has developed an object-oriented framework and transformation lifecycle. Borrowing from the concept of an object-oriented database, IBM has created a business resilience framework that is designed to help you identify the object layers that make up your company — ranging from the strategic overlay, all the way down to the nuts-and-bolts technologies and facilities. Within each layer, the objects are assigned specific attributes that help manage the risks associated with each object. Once you understand these objects, their attributes and the relationships among them, you can begin to identify areas for improvement. READ THE PAPER (PDF)
•Date: 11th Nov 2005 •Region: World •Type:
Article •Topic: BC general |
