Virtual Corporation to Support VA Department's Contingency Plans and Disaster Recovery Planning
The Department of Veteran Affairs has selected Virtual Corp.’s Sustainable Planner software program to manage and maintain more than 100 disaster recovery and contingency plans. The program will support business continuity in within the Region 2 and 3 interim data centers.
“Virtual is proud of our history supporting the Department of Defense and our nation’s private healthcare systems. We are honored to have this opportunity to serve the extraordinary mission of the Veterans Administration,” said Executive Vice President Margaret Langsett.
Virtual Corp. provides IT disaster recovery and business continuity (COOP) software products and consulting services. Sustainable Planner (SP) software was designed for organizations to empower organizational managers to contribute data and documents to create their own unique functional plans.
SP comes with a variety of predefined “planning models” to jump-start the VA’s use of the tool. These planning models can easily be configured to exactly match the VA’s requirements for functional, infrastructure and application recovery planning, data center crisis management, event or exercise management, risk assessment and a variety of other COOP (BC for IT) planning applications.
Most competing business continuity software is complex, requiring a steep learning curve and quickly becomes outdated. Sustainable Planner, however, is designed to be modified, without programming, to exactly fit an organization’s needs. It is adaptive and can be reconfigured as an IT disaster recovery or COOP program matures.
“The Department of Veterans Affairs needed a tool that was not only flexible and powerful, but one that the user community is comfortable with,” said Scott Ream, Virtual Corp.’s president. “And the SP software can be modified without programmer support to suit the users and operations processes, instead of having to make changes to the organization to fit the tool.”