Business Continuity Plan Proves Cost Effective and Timely

Have you made business continuity a primary focus for your business? What plans do you have in place to be sure you can for all that serve clients if the power goes out? What will you do to answer customer calls if there is a storm and your power lines go down? You may have an all-IP environment where you rely on VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol), nevertheless the power already went out and without a powerful generator, you are going to be stuck.

In truth, business continuity is not about making sure you will always have power or keep landlines in place in case the phones go out. Instead, the concept of business continuity is a plan put in place to be sure you can continue business as normal, no matter what outside threats or occurrences take place. This often means you need to work with a proven provider to determine the right plan and strategy to have in place and the best way to execute when the time comes.

Look at Coal Services

This recent Quorum Labs case study takes a look at Coal Services and how this company needed to implement a reliable business continuity plan. The challenge for this organization was that it was responsible for providing health, safety and rescue services to the coal mining industry in Australia. As a result, Coal Services was subject to Commonwealth’s Corporations Act 2001 regulations. This demanded that the organization have a business continuity plans in place and undergo frequent audits.

The second business continuity option – which Coal Services selected – involved two pairs of onQ appliances running 27 production servers in a DR environment. This setup provided a complete site recovery when all is said and done of a failure. The overall cost was $125,000 and implementation took just one week.

The benefits Coal Services experience with the implementation of its new business continuity solution included complete business continuity at 1/5 the cost and 1/12 the time it would have taken with the alternative solution. The company as well found they could easily perform regular self-test to prove regulatory compliance, and improved data protection reliability and recovery time.