Articles / White Papers
Connecting Business Process to IT Infrastructure
Appeared in Disaster Recovery Journal, Fall 2009
by Daniel Evenson, CTO Pathway Systems
This article introduces the practice of dependency modeling and
discusses how it can be used by business continuity and disaster recovery
planners to conduct business impact analysis.
Automated Impact Analysis
This white paper describes an approach to using Blueprints™ for automated impact analysis through a method of calculating cost of downtime for every component that supports IT services. Traditionally, an IT component's cost is recorded as its book value or replacement cost. More useful to disaster recovery and business continuity however, is ...
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Sample Blueprints
Database Failure Simulation
This report describes potential adverse impact from various database failures.
Before this report was generated, automated what-if analyses were performed to score each
IT resource with its ability to cause lost utility due to high-level application
downtime. The report focuses on database specific origins of that downtime.
Locations and Applications
This report has two chapters: Locations, which details where physical IT resources are
located, and Applications which gives a high-level dependency hierarchy of each application.
Various Examples
This reports demonstrates just a few of the automatically rendered diagram types that can be produced.
Blueprints™ can generate similar reports for any server with a single mouse click.
The diagrams generated in these PDF documents are vector based which permits you to zoom in deeply
to view details in complex diagrams. Every object in any diagram is also automatically
included in the index.
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