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There are many challenges within the IT realm. These challenges keep us up at night and we have taken on the strategy of hope….Hope that the problem will go away or the issues these challenges pose will not affect us, by coming in our direction. Is the way that we should go about taking care of our businesses?

There are far to many companies taking on this mind set. This thought process has been and is being used often and I see it to be a patchwork mentality. Pseudo methodical I would like to call it. Let’s visit…A method of Hope in some cases, get many to move on to bigger and better things in life. Hope is the key, but when hope is successful in many cases, it is due to a very active individual(s) on the part of the person(s) who put in place goals and actions that are redeemable, in the form of initiatives to implementation ratios being realized. The key to successful hope is actions. So in contradiction hope is a strategy when you have actions behind the hopes that exist.

With rampant attacks on networks across the country and loss of data. This is something many companies should take serious. Those who do, are the ones who have been hit or suffered loss due to power outage, virus/Trojan security breaches, etc., this should not be the case. Active approach by active speculation allows one to create a safeguard to prevent and/or attack any threats posed to their system(s).

Don’t go to war without your shield, swinging a sword when attacked will put you in the wrong position and leave you on the defense. Always have a protected offense with a hardcore defense strategy. Actively engage in protective measures and you success in the battle has a higher probability of meeting challenges with a positive outcome.

What this means to a company varies in range…Anywhere from the loss of 20 minutes of successful work on any one desktop to stored information stolen from ones database. Business continuity in my eyes consist of so much more than the every day thought of Storage and Backup, as separate but as a part of a whole. Although you must attack them as separate conversations when dealing with a Vendor, they come together as one piece of a whole when fully implemented into your infrastructure.

So what is that thought you ask?  Well first lets graze over the three main components of DR; Backup, Archiving, and Disaster Recovery. Personally in order to fit into full continuous uninterrupted flow, I think  security fits well into the scheme of things. Am I wrong? How much expanding do I need to do. The question is really with you. Are you open to really looking at creating a true system of BI? A flexible fortress I like to call it. Your network, database, etc. Should be flexible enough to stop the threats that are out there.

I did not come here to push any one product or expand on any one area. My goal today was to share with you my thoughts on continuous process protection and what I think it entails. For me it is that simple. Did I make it complex…I highly doubt it and if I did, ping me and let me know what you think. It is as simple as leaving a comment.

I was sitting at my desk this past week and one of our many awesome leaders stopped by my desk to share with me his thoughts on what I am doing here at FirmWire. I must say it was to my surprise and I kinda basked in it a bit. After he left of course. Now I did not come here to brag about the acknowledgment that I have received thus far, no I am not here for that at all. But to point out the fact that there is much going on in and around our companies due to this economy that we must acknowledge, no matter how small or how large it is. We are seeing a “surplus of lack”, that is bending us in many directions, and this is something that I understand well. None of us are alone in what is going on today. But we must begin to see that we are in the rebuilding stages as well. If we do not see that we will fall short of the goals that are set for us.

Now to illustrate a bit of my point. This leader was not part of my department, but somehow made his way over to me to state his piece. This I find awesome in many ways and not for the glory, but that someone took the time to extend themselves to point something out. If we do this in all we do we will have a fighting chance to change the company around us and the company we keep. Also be able to identify the small things going on within the whole. Whether it is technology or the people who run it at its best.

This starts in many areas. Since this is  a technology focused blog I should get to it before I bore you. Let me make my point. It is clear to me now,  more than ever that we must take the time out to extend ourselves in order to make the changes around us create that effect that we so desire day in and day out. We must apply team work as well as focus on the technologies that will take our company to that next level. All technology used within is to support the greater good of that company.

Now you must not go out and buy every single idea that comes to mind. That would be a waste of money all together. What must be done now, is taking time out to identify what will work and what will not. Gaining knowledge on the tools and ideas out there and then finding that Tailor that will fit it to your precise need.

With Vitalization, Networking, Business Continuity,  Software Deployment etc., things have become quite daunting. But if we take the time out to Acknowledge each component and understand how it fits into the whole, we will begin the tailoring, that will be well suited for our companies.

Some of you I may have lost in my brief rant and others may dig what I have to say. My Job at this moment in life is to make sure optimum solution is identified and met. Doing anything other than that is outside of my descriptive. So ask yourself this. Am I paying close attention to the small details that make up the whole? If you answered yes, then you are well on your way to making sure that all identifiable components of the whole are working to their fullest potential or you are soon to upgrade to make sure that they are.  If you answered No then we have some work to do. What have you identified so far?

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