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Outsourcing – Best Strategies for Business Continuity
December 17, 2009 | Leave a Comment
With the volatile nature of our planet, climate change and the natural calamities, such as storms, floods, that these bring, executives and enterpreneurs are very concerned if their businesses could fall victim and not survive when such disaster could befall them.
Technology and market consultancy Forrester Research recommends 4 best practices for business continuity and disaster recovery, particularly that of ensuring your business’ information technology (IT) requirements are maintained and IT services remain continuous.
I. Classify your business’ systems and processes for criticality.
II. Develop tiers of service for both availability and continuity of IT services.
III. Measure IT availability from the perspective of the end-user.
IV. Consider availability and continuity concerns/requirements during application development and testing.
Learn more about these best strategies here