Continuity Planning 101 — An Investment in Business Continuity (BC)

A critical key to an ongoing BC and DR plan is to employ the latest technology. The purpose is two-fold. One is to incorporate new safeguards and the second is to reduce costs. Virtualization, SIP trunking and hosted services all provide Green solutions that increase reliability yet save energy and money. Certainly today’s market provides a profusion of new solutions and sorting through them can be time consuming. However, you can simplify the process by attending ITEXPO (News - Alert) September 1-3, at the Los Angeles, Convention Center.

The advantage of attending a live conference is total technology immersion. ITEXPO hosts scores of conference sessions, workshops, TMC (News - Alert) University Certifications plus networking with up to 150 exhibiting companies. Whether you are an end-user company, a vendor, integrator, contact center… there is something for every attendee.

As this column has constantly stressed, advance preparation is critical for BC and DR plans. The same adage can be said for trade conferences. Don’t do the 3 S’s (Sign up, Show up and Stumble around). Prior to attending ITEXPO carefully research the site and select the conferences and workshops that are critical to your research. Next review the list of exhibitors, visit their web sites and select the ones that are of interest. Then give them a call and set an appointment. Set appointments will guarantee “quality face time” and also maximize the time you can devote to workshops and conference sessions. In this economy budgets are tight and, as with DR plans, management sign-off is vital. Demonstrating that you have a detailed agenda will accelerate the approval process.

The key to a reliable BC/DR plan is to ensure that the plan makes use of the latest Internet telephony and related technologies. Certainly the protection of your company is worth the investment in attending ITEXPO. IT

Max Schroeder is the Senior Vice President of FaxCore (News - Alert), Inc. (www.faxcore.com) and Managing Director of the DPCF.

Rich Tehrani (News - Alert) is the President and Group Editor-in-Chief at TMC and is Conference Chairman of Internet Telephony Conference & EXPO.

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