Forbes Insights: Transform your business continuity strategies
Improve your ability to respond and recover from disruptive events
On average, an infrastructure failure can cost $100,000 an hour and a critical application failure can cost $500,000 to $1 million per hour. - IDC
Planning for potential business continuity incidents and cyber attacks can minimize downtime and achieve sustainable improvements in your business continuity, IT disaster recovery, corporate crisis management capabilities and regulatory compliance.
IBM Business Continuity Consulting Services can help to identify and address resiliency synchronization between business processes, applications and IT infrastructure. We provide flexible business continuity and disaster recovery consulting to address your specific needs, including assessments, planning and design, implementation, testing and full resiliency program management.
Are you prepared for cyberattacks?
Plan for — and recover from — disruptive events with help from IBM Business Continuity Consulting Services.
Assess
Understand the business impact of disruption on your business and your response readiness
Plan and design
Design a resiliency strategy for recovery and restarting your critical business services
Implement and test
Enable your resiliency program using scenario-based exercises and alternate environment recovery testing
Manage and sustain
Engage program management services to maintain a sustainable resiliency environment and monitor resiliency readiness
Don't wait to protect your business from cyberattacks. IBM can help.
“ 80% of executives fully expect that their disaster recovery plans can run their business in the aftermath of a disruption, but only 22% include all mission-critical applications in their DR program. ”
— Forbes Insights, Business resiliency: Now’s the time to transform continuity strategies, 2017,
Additional resources
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IBM is here to help you maintain business continuity
Preparing for service disruptions before they happen requires a strategy and a plan. IBM has experts standing by to help guide you through the process — saving you and your business time, costs and churn.
Questions?
For general business continuity questions, please contact IBM's business continuity specialists at 1-877-426-3287 (priority code: services). Or get in touch via email at the link below.
Connect with Business Resiliency Services experts
Patrick Corcoran
Global Strategy Executive, Business Resiliency Services
Schedule a time with Patrick to discuss:
- Critical service disruption
- Mitigating cyber disruption impact
- DR in hybrid environments
Chandra Pulamarasetti
Vice President, Resiliency Orchestration
Schedule a time with Chandra to:
- Resiliency orchestration
- Business continuity recovery
- Simplifying DR management
Allen Downs
Vice President, Business Resiliency Services
Schedule a time with Allen to discuss:
- Business resiliency consulting
- Industry resiliency solutions
- Managed service solutions
Cyrus Niltchian
Offering Manager, Resiliency Orchestration
Schedule a time with Cyrus to:
- Cyber Incident Recovery (CIR)
- Simplified/accelerated DR processes
- Workflow automation
IBM Business Resiliency Services experts are here to help you move your business forward