CA Technology Brief Sample

Today, organizations of all sizes and types depend heavily upon their IT resources to survive and thrive in an increasingly competitive marketplace, which is why they require the ability to rapidly and economically deploy BC solutions to protect the technologies that run their mission-critical applications.

Any time the IT systems that power core business processes are disrupted, the negative impacts and risks multiply quickly and can include: • Reduced revenues when clients and partners cannot reach key business systems or services • Diminished productivity because employees are unable to work • Decreased stock valuations from a lack of investor confidence • Lost opportunities due to defecting customers

And while you may consider the likelihood of a major disruption highly improbable, the picture changes when you allow for the entire range of potential causes, such as: • Viruses, Trojan horses, and worms • Fiber cuts • Application faults • Administrator and user errors

Individually and together, these risks represent significant threats to your operations — and identify events from which you sometimes never recuperate. If a major disaster occurs, the very existence of your business is in jeopardy — especially if recovery takes days or weeks — rather than minutes or hours.