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Business Continuity is a strategic objective for every CEO. That's why Brennan has developed a range of Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery services focused specifically on small and medium enterprises. To ensure that business always continues as usual.

Business threats come in many guises. Fire, flood, natural disaster, vandalism, terrorism. These are just some of the more obvious, yet dangerous risks result from computer viruses, hackers - even disgruntled employees. Furthermore, the majority of organisations fail to appreciate that even a small system outage can lead to expensive, even terminal, consequences.

At Brennan, Business Continuity involves identifying and eliminating risks before they become problems. On a strategic level, we work with you to develop, plan and test your Business Continuity strategy. We also help you communicate that strategy and ensure it's understood and adopted by the entire organisation, as a way of protecting your future - and that of your staff. Worldwide, enterprises recognise that to focus solely on protecting sophisticated IT systems, and relying on Disaster Recovery (solving problems as they arise), only leads to increased recovery costs - by a factor of approximately 10*. At Brennan, our vision is nowhere near as short-sighted.
* Statistics provided by the Business Continuity Forum.

Brennan's Business Continuity planning service embraces the following:
  • The development of a business justification for your Disaster Recovery planning and continuity proposals
  • The identification and prioritisation of critical functions and their interdependencies - including people and technology
  • The determination of how quickly systems must be restored and their defined acceptable downtimes
  • The creation and maintenance of a comprehensive Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity Plan
  • The assessment of backup and recovery methods and identification of ways to improve your performance and integrity
  • Hosting your entire organisation's DR requirements at our DR facility
Alongside our Business Continuity planning service, Brennan has developed a range of Business Continuity / Disaster Recovery services to help your organisation, including:
  • A purpose-built DR Centre
    • Including workstations, desks, chairs etc
  • Data Centre and Hosting
    • Including IT and communications systems
  • Storage Space
    • Including computers, printers, filing cabinets etc
  • Core Network and IT Infrastructure
    • Including dual network links, servers, routers etc
Regardless which of Brennan's continuity or Data Recovery services you use, you can rest assured we're focused on these objectives:
  • Minimising the duration of a service disruption to your business
  • Facilitating effective decision making during a disaster or emergency
  • Facilitating effective coordination of continuity and recovery tasks
  • Maximising the reliability of any business continuity facility
  • Reducing the complexity of the recovery effort
  • Ensuring an orderly resumption of normal business operations
Please take a read of our PrefSure case study.