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Service Name
Business Continuity / Disaster Recovery Management
Description

This service supports business continuity management functions by ensuring that ITS services can be recovered in the event of a major business disruption within required timescales.  

Service Line

Server Administration 

Features
  • Identify service continuity requirements based on business continuity plans.
  • Coordinate classification and priority of recovery events and activities based on provided priorities from the business.
  • Conduct service continuity risk assessments.
  • Develop service continuity recovery strategies and approaches.
  • Develop and maintain service continuity plans.
  • Test service continuity plans.
  • Implement and coordinate training and communications for service continuity plans, actions, roles, responsibilities and overall awareness.
  • Conduct reviews and audits of service continuity plans and report results to management.
  • Provide information on costs and cost alternatives for continuity strategies.
  • Review proposed and pending infrastructure changes to ensure they do not compromise continuity plans and strategies.
Service Administrator (owner)

Dexter Caldwell

VP Customer Provost 
Availability
  • Network and server assets are available 24 X 7 X 365 except during planned maintenance and upgrades.
  • In the event of an emergency, designated core services are available from the back-up data center in Asheville, NC.
Support
  • Support is provided 8:30 am - 5:00 pm M-F except for campus holidays and shutdowns.
  • Trouble calls to IT Service Center 864-294-3277 or email help.desk@furman.edu.
  • Support outside normal work hours is routed through Public Safety 864-294-2111.
Initiated
  • Approved Work Requests
  • Formal invocation requests from the IT Service Center or authorized IT executive.
  • Approved continuity test schedules and operational procedures
Charges

None 

Delivery channels
  • Completed work requests
  • Offsite operational location
  • Published service continuity plans and strategies
  • Service continuity risk assessments
  • Consulting support 
 Prerequisites

Functioning Internet connection either on campus or the Asheville Recovery site.  

 Key Service Targets
  • In the event of a disaster Core services routed to the off-campus site within 12 hours
  • Annual test of DR site capabilities for each designated DR component

Connect With Furman

     
3300 Poinsett Highway, Greenville, SC, 29613
Phone: 864-294-2000