CICC data Yin Hui: Cloud computing drives BCM forward

BCM (Business continuity Management), Chinese translation for business Continuance management or business continuity management, is the preparation of business interruption that can affect the stakeholders, and the operation of core business functions within a limited time, To establish a society-wide policy and system and perform business activities. Its earliest origins in the United States in the 70 's, after a long period of practice to improve the summary, currently referred to the Business Continuity plan (BCP) is one of the important aspects. BCM is now widely used in the developed countries such as Europe and America, and the application in China is mainly for finance related industries. So BCM in China what is the problem, how to mature application? To this end, IT168 reporter specifically adopted the CICC Data Systems Co., Ltd., general manager of advisory services, Mr. Yin Hui.

Mr. Yin Hui, general manager of consulting Services, CICC Data Systems Co., Ltd.

According to Yin Hui general Manager, as early as the 2001, with the 911, China has a more in-depth understanding of disaster backup, the Chinese market with the emergence of business continuity management of Third-party service providers, but the development is relatively slow. In 2004, the relevant government departments, especially the Information Security Department, issued a series of policy documents, requiring key industries such as finance to do their job in disaster preparedness and business continuity. Since then, China's BCM market has also begun to move towards rapid development, in which, the People's Bank, the CBRC has played a huge role in promoting.

The 911 events in the United States can reflect the importance of BCM, and in the March of this year the great earthquake in Japan can show the important role played by BCM. In just 49 days, it was almost unthinkable that Japan's new Shinkansen, which had been hit hard by the quake, had been announced to resume operations. There are also a number of negative cases, such as the Thai Government's response to the floods has shown a lack of knowledge of business continuity management, training is not enough, the role is unclear, the media to deal with problems such as adverse.

Of course, Yin Hui general manager also said that the sophisticated application of information technology to provide a prerequisite. As far as the domestic situation appears, the financial industry is the use of information technology to carry out comprehensive management of the most mature industry, so the CICC data based on this mature industry began to provide services. As early as 2001, the great Concentration project of the banking information system has already started, this process is revolutionary, not only enhances the overall operation efficiency, also reduces the operation management the cost, guaranteed the team stability, but at the same time the risk also with the concentration, therefore must consider the disaster preparation question, And the direct birth of business continuity management of Third-party services market.

Despite the current focus on the level of attention or technical level, the domestic business continuity management and disaster preparedness services market has been beginning to mature. But compared with other developed countries such as Europe and the United States, there is still a big gap, and this gap in the short term can not be promoted by technical means, that is, details and coverage. Yin Hui General Manager believes that BCM is based on it disaster preparedness of the management structure and system, emphasizing that the people in all departments work together, through the standard process to complete the business recovery, so the details are very important, once a certain detail error, may lead to the whole recovery work failure or risk explosion. In addition to how many scenes, how many operating agencies to do the relevant BCM preparation? At present, the domestic BCM market is precisely in the management and the details are weak.

To address this problem, the general manager of Yin Hui a very simple example. He said that some advanced banks in Europe and the United States have more than 7,000 plans, with an advanced information system as a support, and hundreds of people to be responsible for the entire system of the maintenance of the plan, the whole system is categorized. Once an emergency is encountered, it can be quickly positioned according to the type of event. and its emergency and disaster preparedness team's management level is also very clear, for example, Asian emergencies, Asian leaders to deal with, without the need to alarm the global leaders or the board of Directors. At this point, there are many places to learn in the domestic market.

When it comes to the development of domestic BCM, Yin Hui general manager said that the development of BCM needs a lot of joint efforts, according to the actual situation in the country constantly improve. For example, CICC Data Systems Limited has just released the CICC business continuity and Emergency management software (CEBCM 3.0) on the basis of 2.0 to increase the emergency and walkthrough functions, in order to help enterprises to test and revise the availability of emergency plan according to their actual environment, and through the drill, can strengthen the coordination of emergency Plan participants , combing the emergency response process together.

In addition, in the IT infrastructure, cloud technology is gradually landing. Yin Hui General Manager believes that cloud computing as a service delivery model of the development of a bit information system to provide more flexible choice, making the future production center and Disaster Preparedness Center of the boundary more blurred, multi-center operation is possible and inevitable. Flexible computing and virtualization, making applications and infrastructure more flexible to deploy on demand in the various centers of the enterprise to cope with possible contingencies or business spikes.

Yin Hui General Manager also said that CICC Data Systems Co., Ltd. based in the financial industry, the future will be around the financial industry gradually expand, and then radiation other industries. It revealed that in 2012, an industry version of business continuity and emergency management software would be released for other industries, but it did not disclose a specific timetable.

(editor: Heritage)