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Business Continuity – Not only another cluster

23. March 2010 von Ariel Rauch | 3 Comments

First I would like to welcome you all to this new blog site. It is a blog site which should give to all the professionals of db@net an opportunity to share their wealthy experience with eachothers and with all the rest of you – readers who are not necessarily part of the db@net family but are fascinated by the topics and the openess those are discussed here.

This site is not an advertisment site although in nowerdays everything that is published over the net may be seen and even measured as part of advertisment campaigns. So let me state that this was not our intention – at least.

Although I actively experienced the break-through of the internet generation – yes, indeed I am that old – and had probably a certain impact on my near professional environment I have the feeling as if I would sit in a new car, nylon still on the seats and a fresh smell of “new” in the air …

This is my first blog – This is what I meant to say

My main intention with this blog is to analyse and discuss all aspects related to business continuity and eventually propose some to-do’s or not to-do’s. Important to note that business continuity is only partially a technological topic. Respectively I would claim that the goal of business continuity – as it’s name suggests – is solely business-oriented. Having said that it is definitely true that many of the implementations to seek business continuity are mainly based on mostly complex technological solutions. This fact – although – should not irritate us: Technology is only the way to achieve the business goal!

Let us make a fast search in the net to find a definition for business continuity. The “great thing” about the net is that you can probably always find a definition that fits your personal view – and so I did (Wikipedia: Business Continuity):

„Business continuity is the activity performed by an organization to ensure that critical business functions will be available to customers, suppliers, regulators, and other entities that must have access to those functions. These activities include many daily chores such as project management, system backups, change control, and help desk. Business Continuity is not something implemented at the time of a disaster; Business Continuity refers to those activities performed daily to maintain service, consistency, and recoverability.”

In the coming articles we will explain several components of business continuity. We definitely will discuss some “real world” examples to better illustrate concepts. Important for a fruitful discussion is of course your participation in it. We will take seriously every of your comments, being constructively, critically or only questioning.

I am sure that this topic is as important as interesting to all of us and I am looking forward to discussing it with you.

Yours

Ariel