Business continuity is inter-related business and IT disciplines, spanning people, processes, procedures and technology, an organization puts in place to ensure that essential functions can continue during and after a disaster. Business continuity planning seeks to prevent interruption of mission-critical services, and to reestablish full functioning as swiftly and smoothly as possible following a catastrophic event.

• Interruptions to business-critical processes lead to lost revenue.
• Outages negatively impact employee productivity and customer relationships, possibly yielding legal consequences.
• Inconsistent and undefined processes hamper the ability to rapidly recover data and systems after an outage.
• Plans to meet recovery point and recovery time objectives should be defined by the business continuity plan.

• Ensure mission-critical data, applications, and systems remain up and running with detailed monitoring of applications, systems and networks.
• Lower the cost of business continuity by quickly restoring data and systems for both physical and virtual environments.
• Reduce hardware costs through increased server and storage utilization, deduplication, and tiered storage.
• Identify key functions of an organization and the likely threats to those functions and take necessary steps to remediate.