Today, businesses are always on, running 24/7. Whether it is a natural disaster such as a hurricane, or a man-made disaster, or a network outage, enterprises need to plan for any disruption in business operations. Any disruption in today’s e-business world can result in higher operating costs, lost productivity, and lost revenue. With OverDrive, network and business continuity planners can now model and design sophisticated response scenarios using powerful, automated polices that can instantaneously respond to any type of outage or disaster that may occur.

The OverDrive policy model allows specialized business continuity/disaster recovery (BCDR) response policies to be defined, tested, modified and retested against production level environments as needed. When the BCDR policy is completed and validated it can be stored in the OverDrive Network Service Delivery platform in a pending state. Should a situation arise where a particular response is needed these pending polices can be activated with a single keystroke. Entire network environments can be re-routed, services re-provisioned or access and security models re-directed to back up data center facilities according to the policy all in a matter of seconds without any manual device-level intervention necessary.

Enable Continuous Availability

OverDrive allows infrastructure managers to define any number of specialized business continuity and disaster recovery policies to address any potential infrastructure outage or failure. These specialized BCDR policies along with the policies that define and govern the day-to-day network behavior are all persisted in the OverDrive platform allowing network engineers to respond quickly to emergencies and easily restore the network environment to a normal day-to-day operational state once the emergency is over.

Business Continuity Preparedness and Audit Testing

Traditionally the process of testing infrastructure related resiliency is costly and cumbersome. With OverDrive, the ability to create, test, modify and re-test BCDR policies in a matter of seconds and then rollback to original state all without touching a single network device command line significantly reduces the time and cost involved in successfully executing BCDR operational test plans but more importantly improves the chances of building BCDR plans that actually work as expected when the time comes.

Simple to Deploy and Manage

Policies can be deployed with a single keystroke that automatically and dynamically change the underlying network infrastructure in real-time. No more long emergency sessions on multiple device command lines working to rebuild infrastructure connectivity or work?a?rounds.

Policies initiate multiple infrastructure services across any number of deployed devices simultaneously with no manual intervention required. Instantaneous, real-time, feedback and status on the state of infrastructure services is available to network engineers as dynamic changes are being initiated across the network fabric.

Ensure Compliance

OverDrive's persisted business policies automate and govern network service behavior by dynamically controlling device level configurations. Compliance can be assured as each and every line of deployed configuration code controlling both access and security can be traced back to a single business policy that initiated the change. Comprehensive logging tracks every change made to OverDrive policies and customizable reporting enables enterprises and businesses of all sizes to quickly prepare compliance and audit documentation.

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