Program Overview
Planet’s IT Continuity Service helps customers develop and implement plans for recovering critical IT services when a major disaster strikes. Planet will assess the existing IT infrastructure, propose appropriate IT recovery objectives, develop and implement plans to achieve those objectives, and tie the resulting IT Continuity Plan back into your organization’s Business Continuity Plan.
Cost effectively and efficiently recover critical IT services and infrastructure
Align IT with your business needs
Planet will work with your business contacts to align and customize your IT Continuity plans with the needs of the business.
Reduce insurance premiums
By reducing risk to the organization, risk to the insurance organization is also lowered; this could result in lower insurance premiums.
Gain a competitive advantage
Business Continuity and IT Continuity are becoming more of an issue with potential partners and customers. Showing IT Continuity readiness will improve your ability to sign on new partners and customers.
Increase your organization’s credibility
By proving the ability of IT services to provide the right services at the right time, you will demonstrate your organization’s ability to handle unexpected disasters and crises.
Meet requirements of regulators
IT Continuity planning is not an option for some organizations.
Features and Benefits
Project Initiation
- Develop project plan and assign roles and responsibilities.
- Establish communication method and project stakeholders.
- Conduct project team selection process, and project team meetings
- Review of existing Business Continuity Master and Sub-Master Plans to ensure consistency with IT Continuity planning initiative.
- Clearly explain, and set expectations on, the benefits of implementing IT Continuity to senior management.
Risk Assessment and Analysis
- Better understand your current IT environment, system risks, and business impact system outages at different levels
- Identify critical IT and support processes
- Identify risks, and conduct risk assessment & vulnerability analysis
- Determine risk reduction measures and recovery options
- Extract support requirements
- Conduct impact analysis
- Analyze costs and benefits
Strategy and Planning
- Organization Planning
- Implementation Planning
- Recovery Planning
- Determine project goals and firm-up project milestones
- People and accommodation
- IT systems and networks
- Critical services and assets
Development and Testing
- Implement Risk Reduction Measures
- Implement Standby Arrangements
- Develop IT Continuity plans
- Develop Procedures
- Recovery Testing
Review and Knowledge Transfer
- Education and Awareness
- Training
- Ongoing test plans
- Change control integration
- Review IT Service Continuity Management (ITSCM) deliverables with senior IT management
