On May 7, 2013, CU*Answers’ recovery teams operating from multiple locations convened to restore systems and networks hosting CU*BASE/GOLD^® core processing during a recovery exercise hosted at an IBM BCRS (Business Continuity and Resiliency Services) facility.

At CU*Answers, the continuity and recovery strategies for maintaining a high level of system and application uptime require multiple recovery paths. In addition to real-time data replication between the state-of-the-art primary (production) and secondary (high-availability) datacenters, the CUSO maintains a fully equipped and monitored hot-site recovery location at an IBM BCRS facility. In the rare event both the primary and secondary datacenters were not available, activation of the hot-site recovery plan would engage recovery teams to perform the procedures necessary to restore systems and bring operations back online. To measure the level of preparedness for such events, CU*Answers performs similar off-site disaster tests on an annual basis.

Additional information about the CU*Answers Business Continuity Program including results and analysis reports from previous recovery tests and exercises is available on the corporate web site at http://www.cuanswers.com/bcp.