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Business
Continuity = Revenue Continuity
Cities never sleep. Since
the dawn of the Internet age, business
managers have battled to keep up with the speed and demands of a paperless age,
where time zones have no relevance. Because of the drive
for total 24x7x365 access to information, the focus is rapidly
shifting from disaster recovery to business continuity as the
number one priority in most operations.
Disaster Recovery
In the past, standard disaster recovery methods focused on the
ability to successfully copy data onto catalogued tapes which
are archived incase of need. However, the
growth of data is constantly challenging technology in
ways of tape speed and network speeds. This is causing IT managers
to face the dilemma of which data to backup and how often.
Every minute taken to recover data will result in both lost
revenue and opportunity, so the previous ideologies of storage
as a simple piece of add-on hardware can no longer be
accepted as a method of disaster recovery. Today's
environments need a well designed and integrated plan for Business Continuity.
Business Continuity
The demand for information access
comes from within and outside the corporation. Users
demand data availability and don’t want to hear of outages,
regardless of their cause. Where
there was once a clearly defined list of mission critical
applications, there is now user-defined requirements and
high-profile applications, where business continuity and zero downtime has become
a reality.
Business Continuity is the process
of ensuring satisfaction and revenue by providing optimal data
access and utilization. The definition and process both
contain elements of high availability, mission criticality,
fault tolerance, and continuous availability.
There are many aspects to a
Business Continuity Plan including consideration for all possible disruptions to an organization's
information flow. To do this, the plan must include
an enterprise storage solution that has the following
characteristics:
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A remote mirrored data facility
that is synchronized to ‘live’ production data
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Multiple
real-time copies of production data
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The ability to migrate data
between different hosts and operating systems with ease
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Automatic failover and load
balancing capabilities
Please
contact us and put our security expertise to work for your
organization!
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