WTG’s portfolio of innovative, leading edge strategic and technical ABC services deliver HA (highly available), CA (continuously available) and HR (highly recoverable) operating environments to our clients for both mainframes and open systems. From initial system/application availability to rapid recovery to continuous operating environments, WTG‘s comprehensive strategic, service and technology solutions address all aspects of the continuity paradigm.

WTG’s services consist of predefined components designed to provide process and system availability and recoverability.

Systems Availability Architectures employ advanced clustering technologies both locally and across extended geographies to provide highly available (HA) and continuously available (CA) systems and platforms. These architectures use disk mirroring, automated application / data backup and restoration, job scheduling and remote device management to augment, extend or enhance continuity capabilities.

Data Availability Architectures provide state-of-the-art data availability for single applications up through the mainframe, as well as across the open platforms to the entire enterprise. Data selection, data accessibility, data synchronization, data integrity and data protection states are all addressed. The latest technologies for physical data backup and storage are examined for applicability, including current RAID, HSM, SAN and NAS technologies.

Recovery Plan Development provides plans for recovery of single applications or platforms to comprehensive IT and business recovery, including mission critical business processes. Our recovery plans address all the stages of recovery from immediate response and declaration to the return home migration.

Continuity Plan Development provides plans that concurrently address both IT and critical business processes from a high availability (HA) or continuous availability (CA) perspective, rather than from a recovery point of view.

Iterative Business Process Decomposition (IBPD) focuses on business process analysis, borrowing techniques from process modeling disciplines to create a graphical view of your business process flows. IBPD identifies mission-critical processes, second and third level interactions, upstream and downstream dependencies, recovery requisites and solution architectures.

Point-of-Failure Analysis determines exposures in your current environments that are preventable. Six exposure areas are examined: data availability and integrity, infrastructure (power, cabling, fire prevention, security, etc.), application architectures, upstream and downstream dependencies, network redundancy and component hardware and software deployment.

Current Preparedness Review (CPR) is a quick and efficient way to determine your current state of disaster resistance and/or business continuity. Alternate sites, hardware and software availability, data readiness, vital records, application synchronization, off-site storage and plan documents are reviewed to determine their applicability to meet stated business continuity requirements.

Crisis Communication Plans address external communications to the public, the press, suppliers and other external entities and focus on damage control and public relations. We predefine your disclosure policies, which determines how much information is released to external sources based on the type and nature of a disaster.

Testing and Maintenance Programs provide comprehensive test plans and test scripts to maximize the likelihood of a successful test and minimize time required from your recovery team members. Maintenance also ensures that change control procedures integrate into the fabric of your daily operations environment. WTG can provide ongoing maintenance of the test cycle, ensuring that your recovery capability and the environment that it is protecting stay synchronized.