Today, Michigan has 17 State agencies, 5 critical mainframes, over 4,000 servers, 6 petabytes of data, 50,000 employees, and 6000 applications. In 2003, Michigan recognized that with no comprehensive business continuity/disaster recovery (BC/DR) plan in place, they were in a state of high vulnerability from both natural and manmade disasters.
By adopting a Business Continuity Framework and employing SunGard’s Continuity Management Software (CMS) suite of products, the State of Michigan was able to develop a mature, comprehensive BC/DR solution: one that was so well-defined and detailed that it won the prestigious 2010 National Association of Chief Information Officers (NASCIO) award for Risk Management Initiatives.