1. Virtualization and Workforce Continuity
Friday, October 12, 10 AM ET
Presenters
Bob Zalimeni
Adam Quilty

2. Key Take-Aways
• Learn some of the benefits of virtualization.
• Learn about the basics of disaster recovery and
business continuity.
• Learn how virtualization and business continuity
planning together greatly increase your
preparedness.
• Understand what you can do to prepare your
organization for an unplanned interruption.
• Initiate simple steps to improve your
preparedness today.

3. Why Virtualization?
• Delivers reduced total cost of ownership.
• Decreases deployment of new systems.
• Reduces time and cost
of recovery during
business disaster
or disruption.

4. Virtualized Servers and Workstations
• Hosted virtual servers
vs. local servers
• Power, communications
and cooling redundancy
= maximum availability
and reliability
• Remote users, suppliers,
customers have access.
• Coupled with SaaS
offers serious
competitive edge.

5. Mobile Offices and Workforce Continuity
How will you work when where you work isn’t available?

6. Agility Recovery- What We Do
We provide 4 key Elements of 1. Office Space: Everything
Disaster Recovery to our Members needed for your
employees to work
2. Power for the office
3. Communications:
Telephone and Internet
access
4. Computer System:
Computers, servers,
printers, fax
Also provide Continuity
Planning Guidance and Tools

7. Agility – SBA Co-sponsorship

8. The Reality – Disasters Happen Everyday
A/C Failure Evacuation Microwave Fade Faulty Sprinkler
Arson Explosion Network Failure Static Electricity
Asbestos Fire PCB Contamination Strike Action
Bomb Threat Flood Plane Crash Terrorism
Bomb Blast Fraud Power Outage Theft
Brown Out Frozen Pipes Power Spike Toilet Overflow
Burst Pipe Hacker Power Surge Tornado
Cable Cut Hail Storm Programmer Error Train Derailment
Chemical Spill Halon Discharge Raw Sewage Transformer Fire
CO Fire Human Error Relocation Delay UPS Failure
Communication Failure Humidity Rodents Vandalism
Condensation HVAC Failure Roof Cave In Vehicle Crash
Construction Ice Storm Sabotage Virus
Coolant Leak Insects Shredded Data Water (Various)
Corrupted Data Landlord Conflict Sick building Wind Storm
Diesel Generator Lightning Smoke Damage Volcano
Electrical Short Lost Data Snow Storm Epidemic – H1N1

9. The Impact of Everyday Threats
Protecting Your Organization
I. 15-40% – The number of businesses that fail following a natural or
manmade disaster.*
II. 94% – Number of small business owners who believe a disaster
could seriously disrupt their business within the next two
years.***
III. 51% – Number of Americans who have experienced at least one
emergency situation involving lost utilities for at least 3 days,
evacuation from their home or office, loss of communications
with family members or had to provide first aid to others.****
IV. 35% – The number of small to medium-sized businesses that have
a comprehensive disaster recovery plan.**
*Insurance Information Institute, **Gartner, ***American Red Cross and FedEx Small Business Survey, 2007, ****American Red
Cross/Harris Poll Survey, 2009.

10. 10 Steps To Preparedness
1. Assess your risk – both internally and externally.
2. Assess your critical business functions.
3. Prepare your supply chain.
4. Create an emergency management plan.
5. Back-up your data.
6. Create a crisis communication plan.
7. Assemble an emergency kit.
8. Review your insurance coverage.
9. Plan for an alternate location.
10. Test your plan.

11. 10 Steps To Preparedness
1. Assess your risk – both internally and externally.
2. Assess your critical business functions.
3. Prepare your supply chain.
4. Create an emergency management plan.
5. Back-up your data.
6. Create a crisis communication plan.
7. Assemble an emergency kit.
8. Review your insurance coverage.
9. Plan for an alternate location.
10. Test your plan.

12. Virtualization and Workforce Continuity
• Assess your risks
• History • Geography
• Human Error • Peripheral Effect
• Strive for redundancy in critical functions
• Data Backups • Communications
• Access (SaaS) • Power & Cooling
• People (cross-train) • Suppliers
• Have space for recovery
• Hot/Warm/Cold • Mobile

13. How It Works
• Determine Recovery Site
• Establish Workspace
• Restore Servers (local/remote)
• Restore Workstations
• Route Communications
• Recover Critical Employees
• Return to Normal Operations

14. In Review
• Virtualization offers financial and operational
advantages, and a competitive edge.
• Business continuity planning is key to staying in
business after a disaster.
• Virtualization and business continuity planning
together greatly increase your competitiveness
and preparedness.

15. Further Questions?
Bob Zalimeni Carl Mackey
Sr VP Sales & Marketing Regional Sales Director
bzalimeni@voyss.com carl.mackey@agilityrecovery.com
338-793-3668 704-697-4467