Heading off failures.

This article presents updates on IT business continuity priorities. Shift business continuity focuses on software, rather than adding more hardware for failover. Another solution is to allocate risk assessment tasks to development and operations organizations. Build in processes is also necessary for graceful degradation of service so that failures in an environment with fragile, tightly integrated applications do not cascade through the entire system. Moreover, improve management of IT configurations, software releases and changes to IT infrastructure, particularly in distributed computing environment.