SHARE user group publishes ‘Top five strategies to employ to ensure business continuity’

SHARE, an IBM technology user group, has developed a checklist of the top five strategies that enterprise-class IT users should employ to ensure business continuity.

SHARE recommends that businesses:

1. Create a ‘multiple footprint’ for data recovery – Establish and maintain more than one data recovery site, thus ensuring geographic dispersal of your data assets. This can lessen worries about failures within regional power and communication grids and other threats such as local flooding or sewerage back-ups.

2. Practice predictive monitoring – Know in advance whether transactions are at risk of not occurring in timely fashion. Take pre-emptive action to correct faults and prevent potentially adverse outcomes.

3. Employ autonomic computing – In the event of a calamity, self-diagnosing and self-healing systems and applications may be the only way to guarantee that the business will continue to operate.

4. Provide remote access for staff, including from mobile devices – With data up and running thanks to a multiple footprint for data recovery, staff members can access information in remote locations to ensure business continuity.

5. Deliver 24x7 IT support – This will satisfy staff needs and help keep customers satisfied following a disaster.

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•Date: 30th July 2007• Region: World •Type: Article •Topic: IT continuity
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