Business Continuity
 

First, let's clear up how we differentiate Business Continuity from Disaster Recovery:

Simply put, Disaster Recovery is a subset of Business continuity that deals with UNPLANNED outages.  BC deals with both planned outages (for things such as facility moves and hardware upgrades) and unplanned outages (fires, floods, server failures, file deletions, etc...).

With that as our definition, what does Flytrap attempt to bring to it's clients in these two areas?

For Business Continuity (Planned), we integrate technologies that will allow for ZERO DOWNTIME upgrades, hardware replacements or physical moves.  We accomplish this through the use of server and storage virtualization technologies.

For the Disaster Recovery portion of BC, we work with clients to first determine SLAs (Service Level Agreements) such as Recovery Time Objectives (how quickly do you want your apps to be running again) )and Recovery Point Objectives (how old do you want your data to be once your apps are running again).  We then turn these desired recovery times and recovery points into a solution that will be simple and cost-effective.

View some material from our recent presentation at the Society of Information Managers' annual CIO Forum event.