What makes a good business continuity strategy?

What makes a good business
continuity strategy?

The average cost of an infrastructure failure is $100,000 per hour,
while the average total cost of unplanned application downtime ranges from $1.25 billion to $2.5 billion*.

Today in our 24/7, 365 days a year business landscape, an outage of any kind is unacceptable. Availability and seamless experience is an important part of ensuring an organisation’s success.

Yet risks to your business are ever evolving; from increasing cyberattacks to unexpected events such as physical theft, flood and fire damage, to reliance on a digital approach or legacy business solutions not fit for purpose.

* IDC - https://www.techrepublic.com/resource-library/

Do you have a robust plan in place to rapidly resume work after an unplanned incident?

75% of companies incur tape backup failure at least once a year
59% of companies want to reduce single points of failure
90% of companies fail to keep complete data backup, and hence, struggle to restore data
in the event of data loss**

Most organisations have a business continuity plan in place, but are you regularly reviewing it? It is critical to keep the data centre and network up and running even when there is a failure. Automated replication and seamless failover will protect business applications, workloads and data - essential to daily operations at every level.

A robust plan takes into consideration people, process, technology and could save significant financial losses, costly damage to brand and reputation and and customer dissatisfaction.

** https://www.stellarinfo.com/blog/data-recovery-and-data-loss-statistics/#:~:text=Data%20loss%20may%20occur%20at%20any%20moment.%20Several,restore%20data%20in%20the%20event%20of%20data%20loss

Business Continuity is a Chain

Firstly, from data to compute to applications, business continuity is now a chain. Making your infrastructure resilient through replication is important, multi-level resiliency that can intuitively predict issues, self-heal and make choices to seamlessly move to another Data Centre or network node.

Secondly, part of the process is ensuring that infrastructure is performant and scalable, able to take what the business throws at it without issues or outages.

And finally, cybersecurity pays a huge part in protecting your infrastructure from attack which could take down the resiliency and performance that you have created.

Are you confident in, and have you tested your business continuity plan?

If you'd like to talk best practice for your Cloud and Infrastructure strategy, get in touch with one of our digital experts for an initial conversation.

We can discuss:

Your goals and objectives
Infrastructure recommendations
How this should be configured, managed, supported and tested
Instructions that can be implemented by anyone
Consideration of outsourcing cloud systems for a robust approach
Testing and evaluation processes
Keeping your current strategy current and ever evolving