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A disaster, either human - made or natural, is a disruption you should plan for.

The BCP is the creation and testing of a rehearsed logistical plan for how an organization will recover and partially or completely restore interrupted critical functions within a predetermined time.

Disaster survival statistics suggest that companies do not plan adequately. 150 of the 350 firms closed by the 1993 World Trade Center incident did not reopen.

Following September 11, the firms affected that had well defined BCPs in place were open in a matter of days.

At it's simplest, a BCP may be nothing more than a printed manual stored safely away from the work place containing the names, addresses and phone numbers for crisis management contacts, staff members, clients, and vendors along with the location of off site data storage media, copies of insurance contracts, and other critical material.

At the more complex end, the manual may outline a secondary worksite, technical requirements and readiness, work recovery methods and the means to reestablish physical records. The BCP, along with crisis management and disaster recovery planning, is part of your over-all risk management strategy.

At this point you may be wondering why you are reading about this in the EZSolution newsletter.

As EZSolution evolves our business model toward Managed Services, more and more of our clients will be relying on us to keep them up and running 24/7.

Managed services is only one part of the Business Continuity Model we are developing for you. There is Back Up and Disaster Recovery and down the road, cloud computing.

Currently we are deploying on- site disaster recovery devices that allow incremental offsite backups, virtual restoration of production servers on the device and overnight replacement, to have your critical servers in production in 24 hours.