Business Continuity:

Business continuity can easily be confused with disaster recovery, risk management, and other related topics. The key to getting business continuity right is to focus on the strategic assets of the business and come up with a plan that integrates key business processes, human resources, and facilities with IT into a comprehensive solution for dealing with continuity issues.

Data Protection Management:

The vast majority of computer users in corporate environments work with sensitive information throughout the course of their day. Enterprise-wide storage networks are deployed to make data readily accessible and universally available, but are they safe and secure?

Despite the fundamental importance of this question the answer remains largely unclear. The growing and widespread deployment of storage networks has inspired a good deal of research on subjects such as storage functionality, availability, and access.

However, and alarmingly small amount of effort has gone into assessing, analyzing, and addressing the security issues of the storage network.

Security:

Financial benefit and electronic security for the enterprise are not normally associated with each other. After all, the common wisdom about security, for many people, is that it is believed - a priority - to be decidedly light on benefits and heavy on the cost side of the financial ledger.

However, when electronics security policies, procedures, and products are not deployed and maintained to avoid, mitigate, and prevent disruption to make-the-money missions of an organization, the financial implications become obvious: lost productivity, wages, revenues, customers, and impaired brand, among others.

Conversely, when policies, people, and security products are appropriately aligned to reinforce business procedures, security products actually automate business productivity that, in turn, empowers higher levels of revenue growth and profit.

Life Cycle:

Studies by Gartner Inc. show that nearly 80 percent of total IT costs occur after the purchase of the unit, including maintenance, repair, support, and upgrades.

With such a large potential for cost overruns, it is increasingly important to identify, manage, and control factors that impact TCO. By identifying areas where your company falls short of industry best practices and implementing appropriate solutions, your business benefits through:

•   revealed costs which enable accurate measurement
•   improved, rationalized decisions
•   sharpened forecasting and improved change control
•   improved IT cost management, budget controls, and performance
•   enhanced productivity and functionality
•   higher levels of customer satisfaction
•   standard, consistent, and measurable data
•   mitigated risks within the IT environment
•   greater business value