Redundancies/Divergence
In business continuity planning, the decentralization of facilities, systems, equipment,
and processes goes a long way to help ensure the survival of the organization in times of
a disaster. In today’s busines s environment, many organizations believe it is in their
financial interest to centralize as much of their processes as possible. Despite this, there are
many opportunities to build redundant or diverse functionality into equipment and
processes. Redundant array of inexpensive drives (RAID drives ), dual power supplies and
other critical system components, and uninterruptible power supplies (UPS) are examples
of mitigation at an equipment level. A second, redundant data center and a data center
configured on a load-balan ...