Business Continuity Services
BellSouth, in alliance with Comdisco® - the world's largest and most experienced provider of business continuity services - can help you customize a comprehensive business continuity strategy for your company to keep your business operational during and immediately after a disaster.
The Umbrella Protection PlanSM pulls together all of the elements into one detailed, step-by-step course of action that establishes responsibilities in case of an emergency. Areas include
- Telecommunications
- Data processing
- Security
- Alternate sites for people who can't get to the office
- Emergency funding
- Press releases
Uninterrupted communications are critical to your business. Your present disaster recovery plans may not adequately cover communications services for voice and data. While catastrophic events are relatively rare, human error is not. In fact, 86 percent of all business disruptions are caused by human error such as:
- Cable cuts caused by construction somewhere in your area
- Network or hardware failure, software errors, and lost or corrupted data
- Computer sabotage or vandalism by an external hacker or disgruntled employee
- Utility outages caused by climate extremes
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- Ensure that your business continues to operate in the event of a disaster.
- Protect your investment in critical hardware, software, and stored data.
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- Continuity Planning Services include business telecommunication consulting, vulnerability analysis, recovery strategy design and implementation, overall business continuity program management, and recovery plan development software.
- Network Protection Services provide you with high-speed, flexible, reliable, diverse voice, video, and data capabilities to withstand or accommodate failures.
- Network Transport Services keep your internal and external communications virtually intact during a disaster.
- Data Protection Services maintain your computing power both during and after a crisis.
- Voice Protection Services provide backup and alternate lines of communication to keep you in touch with employees and clients if your original lines are disrupted.
- A Mobile Central Office, operating within 72 hours of a disaster, 24 hours a day and providing up to 10,000 lines where emergency service is needed most.
- Relocation of your key personnel to a Comdisco Workarea Recovery Center within hours of a disruption, with access to telecommunications services, Local Area Networks (LANs), data terminals, PCs, workstations and business/staff recovery capabilities.
- Comdisco's private high-speed fiber backbone network - the world's largest network dedicated to business continuity - complementing the BellSouth network, offers a wide range of solutions for recovering voice, data and image communications.
- Comdisco's worldwide network of 33 recovery sites with capabilities supporting all leading platforms for both computer and business functions are available for short-term and long-term use.
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Benefits |
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- Ensures the survival of your business during even the most extreme disasters.
- Enhances your competitive advantage by identifying operational weaknesses.
- Increases security by limiting the impact of vandalism, sabotage, or unauthorized access to systems.
- Establishes accountability by defining everyone's responsibilities in an emergency.
- Saves money by dramatically reducing the losses that could be incurred in the event of a disaster.
- Provides peace of mind by establishing a comprehensive business continuity plan that will keep your operation functioning during an emergency.
- Improves customer relations by assuring clients that you will be able to meet their needs despite adverse circumstances.
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