Ensuring Uninterrupted Continuity
It is critical to keep a business going. To put it simply, if you lose the power to purchase and sell, your business ceases to exist for all practical purposes.
Business continuity enables this by identifying steps that must be performed to guarantee operations remain operational regardless of the type of the crisis. As an example:
- Can you switch to a server or network situated in a functional data center if the power goes out with no guarantee of when it will be restored?
- Do you have a backup server (or virtual server) ready to go in the event of a server failure?
- Can your staff operate remotely if your office location becomes unavailable for whatever reason?
When designing your business continuity strategy, you analyze all potential interruptions. One of the most common reasons for offsite backup is a loss of power or an office location, and redundant backup remains one of the most crucial parts of IT stability.
Your company just cannot afford downtime. A robust business continuity strategy might be the difference between being up and running in minutes vs days or weeks.