This document discusses business continuity and disaster recovery strategies. It begins with an overview of the three main components of business continuity: high availability, continuous operations, and disaster recovery. It then discusses seven tiers of business continuity strategies ranging from tape backups to real-time data replication. Finally, it provides examples of how IBM products like Spectrum Protect and Spectrum Virtualize can be used to implement various tiers including backups, replication, and rapid recovery of application data.