Patent ID: 7519857

Claim:
A method of providing a vendor-neutral business continuity computing environment, comprising: providing a consolidated primary site application status report and a consolidated disaster recovery (DR) site application status report associated with each of one or more applications residing at one or more servers located a primary site and a DR site, respectively; determining a DR condition based on the provided consolidated primary site application status report and the consolidated DR site application status report; and notifying the DR condition as a function of the determination of the DR condition, wherein providing the consolidated primary site application status report and the consolidated DR site application status report comprises: providing a primary site application status report for each of one or more applications residing in each of one or more servers at the primary site; providing the consolidated primary site application status report for the primary site using the primary site application status report associated with each of the one or more servers located at the primary site; providing a DR site application status report for each one of substantially similar one or more applications residing in each of one or more servers at the DR site; and providing the consolidated DR site application status report for the DR site using the DR site application status report associated with each of the one or more servers located at the DR site.