The purpose of this white paper is to examine the necessary building blocks required for IT Resilience & Assurance (ITRA) and to help you understand what to look for when selecting a great solution that best fits the needs for your business. Several key pieces of technology must be in place in order for ITRA to be possible, including anomaly detection, backup, deduplicated file system assisted replication, orchestration, and assurance, and this paper explores all of these concepts in depth.