Business Continuity

The impact of recent series of tragic, malicious and catastrophic world events have raised the awareness of organizations and corporate executives who are now increasingly striving to devise and implement continuity plans to manage risk and recovery plans to quickly restore their operations should another calamity occur.

While this is a prudent strategy, it is still reactive. DCi’s Business Continuity solutions, on the other hand, use a proactive approach to avoid or minimize the impact such disasters could have on your business. DCi‘s goal goes beyond recovering from a disaster; business continuance is about minimizing and mitigating risk to protecting your business and keeping it functional and operating. Our goal is to your organization develop and solidify their business continuance strategy, architecture and technology infrastructure into a comprehensive contingency plan avoiding and mitigating the potential exposures to and damages resulting from both calamitous events and planned downtime.

DCi offers a complete suite of business continuity services. Our consultants through a comprehensive risk management assessment examine how operational disruption impacts every area and function involved with running your business and servicing your customers. We then use this information to define each area’s acceptable recovery time and recovery point objectives in the event of a disaster or discontinuity within the context of the defined acceptable risk.

Feasible continuity options are identified and an extensive risk management assessment is executed. Our consultants analyze the existing technology infrastructure’s ability to deliver on the risk management goals and objectives; make appropriate recommendations to ensure that the infrastructure will effectively meet these business continuity objectives; and architect and implement a technology infrastructure based on the selected risk assessment strategies defined acceptable risk and associated investment.

DCi, with its industry expertise and strategic alliances, provides the industry's gold standard for information protection. With DCi, you can match protection levels to the business value of your data—across its entire lifecycle with solutions that are gauged to its specific business value. So you can give each class of business information the level of protection it merits.

Our solution offers industry-standard tiered storage platforms - from simple, low-cost back-up-to-disk solutions to state-of-the-art local and remote replication capabilities and a wide selection of advanced business continuity software, enabling solutions tailored to your specific information protection needs. Our business continuity offerings also include robust information protection and high-availability technology solutions.

Whether your goal is to protect your core business from disaster, achieve regulatory compliance, or ensure high availability, DCi has the solution for you. DCi offers world-class protection - within your budgetary, process, and technology constraints.

Our solution is proactive, not Reactive. There’s no predicting when a disaster will strike. In today’s increasingly technology-reliant marketplace, a business continuity plan built upon a risk management strategy is a critical component of your company’s continued success. DCi has the experience, the industry relationships and the proficiency to design and implement business continuity solutions that make a difference.

Key Factors The ROI of Business Continuity…

	Manage and reduce risk Reduce lost productivity and revenue Reduce regulatory “oversight” exposure Prevent technology related exposure Protect business reputation and operations

…Executives in organizations that manage risk effectively through a business continuity solution “sleep a lot better” than those who don’t.

Information Lifecycle Management (ILM)