2012年6月8日星期五

Business Continuity Management Moves to Cloud

My third response, which focused on the unbearable practice of quoting oneself, inspired me to quote some thought leadership.

River bed is a WAN optimization technology provider and the paper has a heavy focus in that area (the last two pages of the report consists of a pitch). However oakley sunglasses for men, the paper offers valuable guidance on ways to bolster BCM an address growing impediments (data growth oakley sunglasses for men, bandwidth cost, information security) to top-notch BCM capabilities. Finally, the paper offers some refreshing ideas about how to get started with cloud-related applications without plunging full-bore into the cloud.




“The public cloud offers price points low enough that many organizations feel compelled to leverage some type of cloud computer and/or storage infrastructures as part of their BC/DR plans oakley sunglasses for men,” reads a white paper, “Practical Advice for Streamlining Business Continuity/Disaster Recovery Solutions,” published by the consulting firm ESG and the technology firm RiverBed. “But how this impacts current progress of existing investments and the ability to connect to the cloud are common challenges.”

This cloud-storage offering has made my working life so much more secure – in a highly convenient way –that this cloud tool has become a daily business process tool for me – rather than a monthly risk-management measure.

So, when I see cloud positioned as a business continuity management (BCM) and disaster recovery tool, I have two responses: A) “Well, of course;” and B) “Can companies that use a cloud approach in a BCM program apply the approach to improving other business processes?”

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After a laptop crash earlier this year replica oakley sunglasses, I made a genuine effort to move all of my small business’ data – 15 years’ worth of digital interview files, transcriptions, notes, ideas, articles, article edits, press releases and white papers – to the cloud. Among other tools (thank you, Windows 7!), I discovered Drop Box (full disclosure: sadly, I do not get paid to promote any of these tools).

The paper also notes that larger organizations are currently “deploying their own internal cloud technologies to gain the benefits of a rapidly scalable, self-provising infrastructure.” This deployment is mainly focused on applications and uses such as CRM, email and archived data; however, the paper points out that these uses are also expanding cloud usage in BCM and DR efforts.





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