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Business continuity

Index Business continuity

Business continuity is the planning and preparation of a company to make sure it overcomes serious incidents or disasters and resumes its normal operations within a reasonably short period. [1]

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Application service provider

An application service provider (ASP) is a business providing computer-based services to customers over a network; such as access to a particular software application (such as customer relationship management) using a standard protocol (such as HTTP).

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Backup

In information technology, a backup, or the process of backing up, refers to the copying into an archive file of computer data so it may be used to restore the original after a data loss event.

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BC

BC may refer to.

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Business continuance volume

In disk arrays, a business continuance volume, or BCV, is EMC Corporation's term for an independently addressable copy of a data volume, that uses advanced mirroring technique for business continuity purposes.

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Business Continuity Institute

The Business Continuity Institute (BCI) was established in 1994 to enable individual members to obtain guidance and support from fellow business continuity practitioners.

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Business triage

Business triage is a decision making system that provides a framework for business decision making, outcome goal prioritization, and resource allocation in many business environments.

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Cloud computing

Cloud computing is an information technology (IT) paradigm that enables ubiquitous access to shared pools of configurable system resources and higher-level services that can be rapidly provisioned with minimal management effort, often over the Internet.

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Cluster-aware application

A cluster-aware application is a software application designed to call cluster APIs in order to determine its running state, in case a manual failover is triggered between cluster nodes for planned technical maintenance, or an automatic failover is required, if a computing cluster node encounters hardware or software failure, to maintain business continuity.

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Computer operator

A role in IT, computer operators oversee the running of computer systems, ensuring that the machines and computers are running properly.

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Continuity

Continuity or continuous may refer to.

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Continuity of Operations

Continuity of Operations (COOP) is a United States federal government initiative, required by U.S. Presidential Policy Directive 40 (PPD-40), to ensure that agencies are able to continue performance of essential functions under a broad range of circumstances.

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Continuous availability

Continuous Availability is an approach to computer system and application design that protects users against downtime, whatever the cause and ensures that users remain connected to their documents, data files and business applications.

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Crisis management

Crisis management is the process by which an organization deals with a disruptive and unexpected event that threatens to harm the organization or its stakeholders.

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Critical infrastructure protection

Critical infrastructure protection (CIP) is a concept that relates to the preparedness and response to serious incidents that involve the critical infrastructure of a region or nation.

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Data center

A data center (American English) or data centre (Commonwealth English) is a facility used to house computer systems and associated components, such as telecommunications and storage systems.

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Digital continuity

Digital continuity is the ability to maintain the digital information of a creator in such a way that the information will continue to be available, as needed, despite changes in digital technology.

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Disaster recovery

Disaster recovery (DR) involves a set of policies, tools and procedures to enable the recovery or continuation of vital technology infrastructure and systems following a natural or human-induced disaster.

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Disaster recovery and business continuity auditing

Disaster recovery (DR) and business continuity refers to an organization’s ability to recover from a disaster and/or unexpected event and resume operations.

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Disaster recovery plan

A disaster recovery plan (DRP) is a documented process or set of procedures to recover and protect a business IT infrastructure in the event of a disaster.

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Disaster response

Disaster response is the second phase of the disaster management cycle.

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Disaster risk reduction

Disaster risk reduction (DRR) is a systematic approach to identifying, assessing and reducing the risks of disaster.

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Dynamic infrastructure

Dynamic Infrastructure is an information technology paradigm concerning the design of data centers so that the underlying hardware and software can respond dynamically to changing levels of demand in more fundamental and efficient ways than before.

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Emergency management

Emergency management or disaster management is the organization and management of the resources and responsibilities for dealing with all humanitarian aspects of emergencies (preparedness, response, and recovery).

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Ericom Software

Ericom Software, Inc., founded in 1993, is located in Closter, New Jersey, and provides software for enterprise-wide application access and application publishing for server-based computing environments.

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Facility management

Facility management (or facilities management or FM) is a professional management discipline focused upon the efficient and effective delivery of support services for the organizations that it serves.

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General Data Protection Regulation

The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) (EU) 2016/679 is a regulation in EU law on data protection and privacy for all individuals within the European Union (EU) and the European Economic Area (EEA).

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Granular configuration automation

Granular configuration automation (GCA) is a specialized area in the field of configuration management which focuses on visibility and control of an IT environment’s configuration and bill-of-material at the most granular level.

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GridPoint

GridPoint is a cleantech company that provides energy management and sustainability solutions for enterprises, government agencies, and utilities.

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Hitachi Data Systems

Since September 19, 2017, Hitachi Data Systems (HDS) has become part of Hitachi Vantara, a new company that unifies the operations of Pentaho, Hitachi Data Systems and Hitachi Insight Group.

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IBM Global Mirror

Global Mirror is an IBM technology that provides data replication over extended distances between two sites for business continuity and disaster recovery.

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IBM Tivoli Storage Productivity Center

IBM Tivoli Storage Productivity Center (TPC) is a Storage Resource Management (SRM) software offering that provides a centralized point of control for managing large-scale, complex heterogeneous storage environments.

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Iland

iland Internet Solutions provides hosted cloud infrastructure as a service for production business applications, disaster recovery and business continuity, testing and development, and software as a service enablement for independent software vendors.

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Information assurance

Information assurance (IA) is the practice of assuring information and managing risks related to the use, processing, storage, and transmission of information or data and the systems and processes used for those purposes.

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Institute of Internal Auditors

The Institute of Internal Auditors (IIA) is the internal audit profession's most widely recognized advocate, educator, and provider of standards, guidance, and certifications.

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Iomart

iomart Group is a Scottish information technology and cloud computing company that was founded in 1998 by entrepreneur Angus MacSween.

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Irma Becerra Fernandez

Irma Becerra Fernandez is a Cuban-American higher education leader who will take office as the seventh president of Marymount University in Arlington, Virginia on July 1, 2018.

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ISO/TC 262

ISO/TC 262 Risk management is a technical committee of the International Organization for Standardization established originally in 2011 as Project Committee and converted in August 2012 into a full Technical Committee (TC) to develop standards in the area of risk management.

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IT risk management

IT risk management is the application of risk management methods to information technology in order to manage IT risk, i.e.: IT risk management can be considered a component of a wider enterprise risk management system.

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Macquarie Telecom Group

Macquarie Telecom Group Limited (ASX MAQ) - Macquarie Telecom is a managed hosting and telecommunications company.

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Marc Vael

Marc Vael (born 30 July 1967) is a Belgian computer scientist, business executive, lecturer, and author in IT risks and business continuity.

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Maximum tolerable period of disruption

Maximum tolerable period of disruption (MTPOD) is the maximum amount of time that an enterprise's key products or services can be unavailable or undeliverable after an event that causes disruption to operations, before its stakeholders perceive unacceptable consequences.

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Merit Network

Merit Network, Inc., is a nonprofit member-governed organization providing high-performance computer networking and related services to educational, government, health care, and nonprofit organizations, primarily in Michigan.

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Mimecast

Mimecast is an international company specializing in cloud-based email management for Microsoft Exchange and Microsoft Office 365, including security, archiving, and continuity services to protect business mail.

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Network Load Balancing

Network load balancing (commonly referred to as dual-WAN routing or multihoming) is the ability to balance traffic across two WAN links without using complex routing protocols like BGP.

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Operational continuity

Operational continuity refers to the ability of a system to continue working despite damages, losses or critical events.

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Outline of computer security

The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to computer security: Computer security – security applied to computing devices such as computers and smartphones, as well as computer networks such as private and public networks, including the whole Internet.

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Picture archiving and communication system

A picture archiving and communication system (PACS) is a medical imaging technology which provides economical storage and convenient access to images from multiple modalities (source machine types).

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PIER Systems

PIER Systems, Inc. is a company that develops and supports an on-demand, web-based, communications software called The PIER System.

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PlateSpin

PlateSpin is a software solution suite of Micro Focus International.

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Qumak

Qumak S.A. - Qumak is a Polish IT and technology company which designs and implements ICT solutions for private clients and public sector.

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Ready Georgia

Ready Georgia is a statewide emergency preparedness campaign in the U.S. state of Georgia instituted by the Georgia Emergency Management Agency (GEMA) and Governor Sonny Perdue in conjunction with the national Ready America campaign sponsored by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA).

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Recovery time objective

The recovery time objective (RTO) is the targeted duration of time and a service level within which a business process must be restored after a disaster (or disruption) in order to avoid unacceptable consequences associated with a break in business continuity.

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Resilience (organizational)

Organizational resilience is defined as "the ability of a system to withstand changes in its environment and still function".

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Risk management

Risk management is the identification, evaluation, and prioritization of risks (defined in ISO 31000 as the effect of uncertainty on objectives) followed by coordinator and economical application of resources to minimize, monitor, and control the probability or impact of unfortunate events or to maximize the realization of opportunities.

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Security Policy Framework

The Security Policy Framework (or "SPF") is a set of high-level policies on security, mainly affecting the UK government and its suppliers.

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Security Vision

Security Vision – software meant for automation of information security management system (ISMS) organisation.

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Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction

The Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction (2015-2030) is an international document which was adopted by UN member states between 14th and 18th of March 2015 at the World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction held in Sendai, Japan and endorsed by the UN General Assembly in June 2015.

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Seven tiers of disaster recovery

SHARE originally defined seven tiers of disaster recovery to help identify various methods of recovering mission-critical computer-systems as required to support business continuity.

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SIOS Technology Corp.

SIOS Technology Corp. is a San Mateo, California-based company focused on IT operations analytics ITOA, global cloud computing opportunities, business continuity and disaster recovery solutions for large enterprises.

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Solaris Cluster

Oracle Solaris Cluster (sometimes Sun Cluster or SunCluster) is a high-availability cluster software product for Solaris, originally created by Sun Microsystems, which was acquired by Oracle Corporation in 2010.

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Supply chain management

In commerce, supply chain management (SCM), the management of the flow of goods and services, involves the movement and storage of raw materials, of work-in-process inventory, and of finished goods from point of origin to point of consumption.

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TPx Communications

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Vendor Neutral Archive

A Vendor Neutral Archive (VNA) is a medical imaging technology in which images and documents (and potentially any file of clinical relevance) are stored (archived) in a standard format with a standard interface, such that they can be accessed in a vendor-neutral manner by other systems.

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Ventus (wireless company)

Ventus is a US based company founded in 1999 and headquartered in Norwalk, Connecticut that provides secure private line wireless services, and manufactures cellular wireless hardware.

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WAN optimization

WAN optimization is a collection of techniques for increasing data transfer efficiencies across wide-area networks (WANs).

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WiMAX

WiMAX (Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access) is a family of wireless communication standards based on the IEEE 802.16 set of standards, which provide multiple physical layer (PHY) and Media Access Control (MAC) options.

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Wireless failover

Wireless failover is an automated function in telephone networks and computer networks where a standard hardwired connection is switched to a redundant wireless connection upon failure or irregular closure of a default hardwired connection or component in the network such as a router, server, or computer.

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Zerto

Zerto Ltd. is a company providing enterprise-class disaster recovery and business continuity software for virtualized infrastructure and cloud environments.

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10G-PON

10G-PON (also known as XG-PON) is a 2010 computer networking standard for data links, capable of delivering shared Internet access rates up to 10 Gbit/s (gigabits per second) over existing dark fiber.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_continuity

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