An organization's business continuity plan helps keep critical functions running during an emergency—the power fails, a virus is unleashed on your network, a natural disaster has occurred. Even the slightest downtime or loss of data can cripple your operation. CDW can help you prevent disaster by implementing a well-planned recovery strategy that incorporates the following solutions:

• Backup is the process of copying files and databases to another device or media for use in the event production data is deleted or altered.
• Archiving is the systematic approach of storing, managing and searching for file and application data.
• High Availability maintains continuous access to data 24 x 7. It provides multiple paths to data to eliminate a single point of failure.

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• White Paper: Step Up Your Strategy
  In evaluating storage and the need for storage systems for business continuity, organizations should look at the different types of storage.
• Case Study: High Availability Lowdown
  The Barkley ad firm implements consolidation, virtualization and replication to strengthen business-continuity and disaster-recovery planning.
• CDW Industry Insider: Disaster Recovery: Plan for the Worst, Expect the Best
  If you make the appropriate investments and recovery plans before a disaster occurs, you can mitigate the potentially devastating financial impact.
• Trend Advisory: Continuous Data Protection
  When you resume business after a disruption, you want to pick up where you left off. Every organization strives for backup that offers as close to zero data loss as possible.
• White Paper: Reality Check
  In an increasingly digital world, it’s clear that business continuity is no longer an option. A smart business continuity strategy can offer maximum results.
• White Paper: Disaster Got You Down?
  In today’s economic climate, every dollar counts. Having the right tools in place to respond to a “disaster” is essential to sustaining a successful organization.
• White Paper: Disaster Plan
  Business continuity/disaster recovery requires a holistic approach that includes storage, infrastructure, servers, applications, middleware and the network.
• White Paper: Preparing to Stay in Business
  According to Strategic Research Corp, most disaster-recovery and business continuity events are not full-blown natural disasters, but “everyday disasters” like hardware failures.
• White Paper: How to Sell Business Continuity to Management in Tough Times
  Putting off business continuity planning (BCP) because business is slow increases the chances that your business won’t survive a disruption.