USContinuity Announces Strategic Alliance With Business and Technology Strategies

PR Log (Press Release) – Jan 20, 2009 – Beginning immediately, USContinuity and BTS will recommend services across their corporate client bases and industries. This strategic partnership establishes a direct channel for USContinuity customers to engage a provider for complete business resiliency analysis, assessments, and related solutions and services, while BTS clients will benefit from independent evaluation of business continuity plans with full testing of the client’s contracted business continuity and recovery plans, disaster recovery solutions, and managed services effectively integrating results into corporate business planning. Ultimately, this strategic relationship provides a distinct source venue for contingency and disaster planning, resilient data center and managed services, and complete testing to ensure continuity of business.

“Organizations putting considerable time and effort into the development of a comprehensive business continuity plan as well as the contracting of outsourced recovery services, be it alternate work sites for employees, servers, or physical data center services, must realize for any level of planning to truly succeed in a crisis it must be tested,” said Daniel Derk, CEO of USContinuity. “The only way to ensure business and infrastructure recovery success is to put the recovery plan and associated services to the test.” Industry estimates state that more than 80% of untested business continuity plans, even professionally developed plans, fail when implemented in an emergency.

“In business continuity and disaster recovery plans, as well as during unexpected outages or disasters, the predominate focus is on the logistics of recovering mission-critical functions, systems, applications, data, and the necessary workforce to ensure continued information availability and the organization’s operating environment; however, an integral part of planning must include testing the plans and associated services to ferret out any possible gaps that would lead to an unsuccessful recovery of the business,” said Michael K. Connolly, president and co-founder of BTS. “USContinuity’s services address an industry need and synergy with BTS’ mission to evaluate, test, and adapt continuity plans and services to complete and certified viability.”

Through this collaboration, USContinuity and BTS will integrate reliable business continuity planning and solutions with complete evaluation and testing to assist businesses in ensuring that their existing or new recovery plans are tested, viable and certified.

About Business and Technology Strategies (BTS)
BTS, founded in 2007, offers an innovative venue for organizations to research, evaluate, and contract for business continuity, disaster recovery, and IT related services. BTS offers a unique resource to businesses in discerning among the numerous complex solutions, service providers, and cost-to-service breakdowns available on the market, allowing for expenditure of valuable time in evaluating the right solution. With over 25 years average experience, BTS utilizes a vast network of reliable providers and relationships allowing clients more options, preeminent costs, and, ultimately, the best solutions. For information, contact BTS at (866) 221-7623 or info@bizntechstrategies.com. Please visit BTS’s website at http://www.bizntechstrategies.com.

About USContinuity:
USContinuity specializes in the independent evaluation and testing of business continuity and disaster recovery plans with a unique approach that defines the industry with comprehensive identification of recovery challenge points thereby enabling clients to document a strategy to overcome those challenges. Based in Atlanta, GA, USContinuity is within close proximity to areas prone to natural disasters while residing in a location that historically remains out of harm’s way. USContinuity’s long-term goal is to assist businesses in ensuring that their existing recovery plans are viable, tested, and certified with the belief that “No continuity plan is truly complete without independent plan testing and certification.” For information, contact USContinuity at (404) 551-3973 or info@uscontinuity.com.  Also on the web at http://www.USContinuity.com.