Reducing Risk Business continuity and contingency planning are now critical elements of every organisation's operational plan - but how many have been tested and proven?

The Challenge

	Customer Feedback
	"When an organisation seeks to exploit leading edge technology, you need to recognise that you need a partner which is an expert to make success easier." "In Centralis BUPA found experts who also matched our delivery approach in every way and, best of all, kept to their promises."	Ian Shaw, Head of IT Services, BUPA
	Business Issues
	Reliability: Ensure that systems and data access are not dependent on a single component or location   Flexibility: Make computing resource as flexible as possible to minimise the disruption and cost of responding to incidents  Prioritisation: Ensure that mission critical users and the services they need are identified and can be prioritised in the event of an emergency Responsiveness: Enable users to access systems from any device at home, hot-desks or standby locations to increase flexibility and reduce cost
	Customer Feedback
	"Working with Centralis has allowed the AA to maintain the build quality, integrity and resilience of the patrol’s laptop PC, improving the reliability and availability of the systems for the patrol. "This in turn has helped to maintain a low cost base for the general support of the laptops."	Chris Bailey, Head of Business Systems – AA Road Operations
	Related Centralis Case Studies
	NSK Managed Service delivers improvement for key UK manufacturer. Royal Marsden Hospital NHS Trust Delivering secure access to patient records for major cancer treatment hospital. LGC International access for UK scientific standards agency.

For many years I.T. departments have had BC and DR on the operational plan, with varying degrees of readiness and testing.

In recent years severe weather, pandemics, strikes, protests and terrorist attacks have taken the plans out of the realm of theory and made them a necessity.

In times of budget restrictions how can organisations ensure that critical systems are always available to critical users without the need for massive investments in infrastructure and services?

Common issues:

• Most businesses suffering major systems or data loss will fail within 18 months if they do not have an adequate plan - but what level of resilience is really needed?
• How well prepared is my organisation to meet the latest threat?
• How resilient is each link in the full service chain – from data through systems and delivery to end-users?
• Major customers and partners are demanding documented plans and proven processes before renewing contracts etc
• Reduced budgets means that the value of “warm-standby” and similar expensive solutions is being questioned
   

How Centralis Can Help

Centralis uses consultancy services and partnership with leading service providers and vendors to help customers maximise resilience and reduce risk. 

Centralis services include:

Discovery - Which services and users are critical to your organisation, and what would be the impact of losing them

Analysis - Reviewing your existing infrastructure, including health-checks and performance benchmarking to identify current capability

Evaluations - Try out market-leading solutions designed to meet your timescales and budget

Design - Tailoring your solution from a comprehensive range of options from resilient components up to fully hosted and outsourced solutions to provide the right level of cover for each organisation

Optimisation - Balancing internal resources against service providers to balance between cost, benefit and risk

Maintenance - Ensuring that resilience is regularly tested and proven, including "live-live" running across multiple data centres

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How Customers Benefit

• Prove compliance and best practice with a documented and proven plan and service capability
• Strengthen ability to cope with all forms of disruption
• Improve flexibility and capacity (and test resilience daily) with a “live – live” solution
• Work to fixed-cost projects and services with clear deliverables and success criteria
   

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What to do next

• Consider how well prepared your organisation is to meet the challenges, from component failure to major service disruption
• Meet with a Centralis pre-sales consultant to discuss your options – no charge or obligation to proceed
• Find out how similar organisations have benefitted
• Discover how hosting and managed service options can reduce risk and add operational benefits
   

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