Case Studies and White Papers
In 2002, a team from IBM interviewed a number of CIOs at a conference and asked them why they were keeping so much data spinning and backing it up each weekend even though the data is no longer accessed. The consistent answer amazed the IBM team. They were told that the data was being kept, “just in case” it was needed in the future. It was this phrase, just in case, that set the IBM team thinking about a new class of data, JIC data.
This white paper was published in January 2005. With the explosion of regulation and the lower cost of storage, there is more JIC data out there today than ever before. While the products discussed in this white paper are long gone, the architecture and total cost of ownership concepts are more important today than they were years ago.
There was a TV station in many cities that would start their evening newscast with the phrase, “It’s 10pm. Do you know where your children are?” Having a Business Availability plan helps to answer the question, It’s 7am, the power is off in your building, do you know where your employees will work today? Read how our Business Availability Service Offering can help your company improve its ability to service your clients through various business interruption scenarios.
When we have the opportunity to discuss a company’s Data Loss Prevention plan with business leaders we are surprised to hear two very consistent responses. First, most companies only plan for the ‘hole in the ground’ disaster, which is the most unlikely, and most expensive to prepare for. Second, as a result of that consideration, very few companies have considered planning for fail back. Read how our Data Loss Prevention Service Offering can help your company assess the kinds of incidents it should prepare for and how in performing an assessment it might better deploy its assets in a manner that can provide a more effective level of resiliency for your company.