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What is Business Continuity?

DRII defines Business Continuity as, " The ability of an organization to provide service and support for its customers and to maintain its viability before, during, and after a business continuity event."

In other words, Business Continuity goes beyond IT and data backup - it's an all-encompassing plan that covers all aspects of a business: client services, sales, marketing, legal, finance, operations, engineering, production etc.

More often than not, the term business continuity is interjected with disaster recovery, but in practice, disaster recovery is a component of business continuity, and not the other way around.

Business Continuity consultants should be well-versed and proficient in their business knowledge in order to be most effective to an organization.  Global X Solutions offers their clients this expertise, along with a solid background and hands-on experience in managing multinational (and multi-office) businesses through major events.  

FAST FACTS

Lessons from Hurricane Katrina: "Backup centers can't be too far away. A sign the lesson is being learned: Companies like Oreck, the poster company of the post-Katrina New Orleans recovery, has opened a new facility in Cookeville, Tenn., 573 miles from Oreck's Long Beach, Miss., operations.

Katrina taught Oreck that that facility, only 76 miles from Oreck headquarters in New Orleans, was too close—both were shut down when Katrina hit. Cookeville is far more likely to be at a safe distance."

From "Lessons of Katrina" eWeek.com