Business Continuity Planning White Papers

WHITE PAPER: IT systems are vulnerable to a variety of disruptions. This paper will focus on common processes and procedures that should be part of any effective enterprise backup/restore system.

Posted: 08 Jul 2009 | Published: 26 Jun 2009

WHITE PAPER: At Intel, we've developed a comprehensive methodology, based on total cost of ownership (TCO), that lets us calculate the real cost of operating more than 90,000 PCs. Using it, we can understand the real cost of deploying and maintaining our PCs across varying time horizons.

Posted: 30 Jun 2009 | Published: 01 May 2009

WHITE PAPER: No matter the business, industry, or size, reliable data access is essential to operations. As that data continues to grow exponentially, it is important to have a backup and recovery strategy that meets current business needs and has the flexibility to grow and change. Read this white paper to learn about HP data protection solutions.

Posted: 23 Jun 2009 | Published: 01 Jun 2009

WHITE PAPER: This paper analyzes the impact of the cloud on the IT Ecosystem and provides answers to what an organization needs to do in embracing a right cloud strategy.

Posted: 12 Jun 2009 | Published: 01 Mar 2009

WHITE PAPER: Check out this solution brief to discover how VMware equips SMBs with technology solutions that allow them to cost effectively optimize the use of their existing IT assets and resources as well as protect the systems, data, and applications that run the business, ensuring Always On IT.

Posted: 01 Jun 2009 | Published: 01 May 2009

WHITE PAPER: Intel IT is engaged in developing a broad, ongoing sustainability strategy to help Intel consume fewer resources and emit less waste. In analyzing the business case for IT sustainability, we identified the bottom-line benefits and defined the metrics that enabled us to effectively reduce our environmental footprint.

Posted: 27 May 2009 | Published: 01 Apr 2009

WHITE PAPER: This white paper reveals how WebSphere® adapter nodes within IBM® WebSphere Message Broker V6.1 speed and simplify the tasks of creating integrated processes, resulting in greater productivity and lower cost.

Posted: 12 Feb 2009 | Published: 11 Feb 2009

WHITE PAPER: This white paper explains how to run sophisticated or highly-available applications in virtualized environments by creating a software-based virtualization infrastructure that offers high availability and grid readiness.

Posted: 17 Dec 2008 | Published: 17 Dec 2008

WHITE PAPER: Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 has been designed to meet the tough challenges for a corporate communication solution and provides a rich feature set that users can access through a variety of different interfaces and devices.

Posted: 10 Dec 2008 | Published: 01 Jan 2006

WHITE PAPER: The goal of this business continuity survey was to learn what these executives were doing about business continuity, and how it figured in their overall IT strategy.

Posted: 06 Oct 2008 | Published: 04 Oct 2008

WHITE PAPER: For small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs), the impacts of a disaster can result in loss of or lack of access to data, applications, and work facilities. This paper explains five key steps to consider when implementing a program for your company.

Posted: 25 Sep 2008 | Published: 25 Sep 2008

WHITE PAPER: Given the enormous long-term costs and implications of a systems interruption, companies need to carefully define and implement plans to mitigate losses. This paper arms you with how to build a strong business case for a recovery plan.

Posted: 19 Sep 2008 | Published: 19 Sep 2008

WHITE PAPER: This white paper seeks to help application owners, operations managers and data center managers ensure their virtualization initiatives effectively support applications and end users.

Posted: 18 Sep 2008 | Published: 18 Sep 2008

WHITE PAPER: This document describes how you can build a strategy to unify and run your business more effectively.

Posted: 17 Sep 2008 | Published: 17 Sep 2008

WHITE PAPER: When the economy is moving forward, most executives focus on growing sales. But when the economy slows down, that focus shifts. This timely white paper explains 10 Secret Strategies to Recession-Proof Your Business.

Posted: 10 Sep 2008 | Published: 10 Sep 2008

WHITE PAPER: What’s the truth behind the failure of many BI projects? Read this paper to learn the main factors leading to disappointment. These pitfalls are not those of new entrants to BI but have been repeated by smart and well managed companies worldwide.

Posted: 04 Jun 2008 | Published: 01 Jan 2008

WHITE PAPER: Employing home agents allows you to expand and improve your call center team. And they can be a form of insurance to keep your business running if disaster strikes. This white paper contains best practices for developing a Home Agents program.

Posted: 02 Jun 2008 | Published: 01 Feb 2008

WHITE PAPER: This white paper highlights the costs of IT asset proliferation and the advantages of the IBM view of IT optimization as a strategic, ongoing process.

Posted: 14 May 2008 | Published: 01 Oct 2007

WHITE PAPER: Explore how you can protect your organizational content and business-critical information from business disruptions such as natural disasters, accidents or human intervention.

Posted: 07 May 2008 | Published: 01 Jul 2007

WHITE PAPER: Enterprise records management (ERM) is an important initiative for many organizations today. Learn about the diversity of records management requirements at the enterprise level and why other solutions fail to meet these requirements.

Posted: 12 Mar 2008 | Published: 12 Mar 2008

WHITE PAPER: This whitepaper explains "business continuity" which is keeping your data safe, and accessible. It also discusses disaster recovery and the typical and atypical ways of gaining network access.

Posted: 23 Jan 2008 | Published: 22 Jan 2008

WHITE PAPER: Ensuring that business operations continue regardless of any circumstance is big business. Whether disruptions come as a result of natural disasters; sabotage (malware); technical failures in data storage or networking components.

Posted: 10 Jan 2008 | Published: 01 Jan 2007

WHITE PAPER: This white paper describes tools designed for VMware environments to increase the efficiency and cost-effectiveness of IT operations. It covers best practices for designing solutions for-and protecting-VMware virtual machines.

Posted: 05 Dec 2007 | Published: 01 Nov 2007

WHITE PAPER: Business Continuity(BC) is the ability to keep vital business operations running in the event of failure in the existing infrastructure. This white paper highlights the importance of (BC) planning and explores strategies and solutions to help achieve them

Posted: 12 Nov 2007 | Published: 01 Aug 2007

WHITE PAPER: Organizations of all sizes have come to expect high availability as an inherent characteristic in their storage systems. This IDC white paper examines how organizations are addressing high availability concerns with respect to their storage environments.

Posted: 20 Aug 2007 | Published: 01 May 2007