What is Business Continuity?

Business continuity is the ability of an organization to continue functioning after an unplanned interruption. Data disaster recovery is an important part of business continuity capabilities.

Why do you need business continuity solutions?

Business continuity once had a lower priority than other IT issues, but today’s IT managers recognize that any enterprise is vulnerable to unplanned disruptions. Reliance on complex supply chains, for example, can cause even a small interruption to bring an organization’s operations to a halt, as can a disaster occurring a state or a continent away. A good business continuity plan covers all IT resources, including telecommunications, networks, servers and storage. Some 80 percent of companies have disaster recovery plans, but most cover only their data center resources. Does your organization have an enterprise solution to address business continuity? Business continuity plans depend upon the protection of data for backup and recovery, as well as includes the components below:

• Data and storage networks
• Data on LAN workstations
• Internet access and information availability
• Phone systems, e-mail and communicationve resources

What are the difficulties?

The goal of a business continuity solution is to identify the most cost-effective disaster recovery plan while also addressing the need to continue business in the event of a disaster, which is, indeed, a very complex task. For IT, the plan requires research, implementation, validation and maintenance:

• Create a crisis management command structure
• Open a secondary work site (where necessary)
• Choose, install, and maintain the telecommunication architecture between the primary and secondary work sites
• Choose, install, and maintain the data replication or movement methodology between the two work sites
• Choose, install and maintain the hardware at the secondary work site
• Choose, install and maintain the application and software at the secondary work site

Many organizations must also ensure the safety and confidentiality of their records, even in case of disaster, to comply with more than 8,000 state and federal regulations that affect records management.

How can we help?

All of Overland Storage hardware and software products are designed to secure your data with enterprise-solution business continuity that works. But we don’t just sell you the products; we also provide world-class service and support when and how you need it.

• A storage solution for any size organization
• Simple, low-cost disk backup, including our widely acclaimed REO SERIES®
• Tape backup and archiving, including our award-winning ARCvault™ and NEO SERIES®
• Tiered solutions with flexibility for upgrading and expansion, including our robust nearline ULTAMUS® RAID
  
  

State-of-the-art technologies

• Virtualization
• Data deduplication
• Continuous data protection
• Compatibility with accepted software and connectivity interfaces
  
  

Support for choosing a storage solution

• Product Configurator tool on our website to build your system
• Knowledgeable sales representatives
• Support for installation, from Basic to Professional
  
  

Maintenance support and service

• Software patches, fixes, and upgrades
• Telephone and email technical support
• Web-based user group and online knowledge center

We are committed to helping you find business continuity solutions simply, quickly, and reliably.

Overland Storage products are designed to secure your data with business continuity solutions, combining data backup hardware with data protection software.

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