... / reduce risk * business continuity planning - an approach that seeks to improve organisational resilience to interruption, allowing for the recovery of key business and systems processes within the agreed recovery timeframes, whilst maintaining the organization's critical functions. We should: * identify possible business continuity strategies * assess suitability of alternative strategies against the output of the business impact and risk assessments * prepare cost / benefit analysis of various strategies * present recommendations to sponsors for approval. Figure showing business continuity process The illustration below depicts the business continuity gap that commonly exists between the business unit's expectations for availability and the IT infrastructure's capabilities. Figure showing general difference between expected and actual availability for RTP and RTO The gap represents the difference between expected and actual availability for both recovery time objective (RTO) and recovery point objective (RPO). RTO represents the time it takes to restore the compute utility to the business unit (how long it ...

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