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 Each year hundreds of data centers worldwide experience significant service interruptions, caused by problems ranging from user errors to viruses, hardware failures to natural disasters, or even something as simple as a road closure or a telecom problem.
However 67% of Irish companies have no disaster recovery plan in place to cope with these threats - even though over half of those companies have multiple locations throughout the country dependent on a central IT service centre.
Business Continuity is now at the forefront of corporate IT strategies and has gained visibility throughout all levels of management up to the CEO.
Elements of a successful business continuity strategy include:
- Application availability planning
- Preventive measures including monitoring and platform redundancy.
- Data Protection.
- Disaster recovery strategy.
- Effective personnel plans.
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Using virtual infrastructure, IT managers can improve all aspects of business continuity, such as:
- Faster and less expensive disaster recovery due to hardware independence between primary and failover servers.
- Elimination of scheduled hardware downtime and dramatic reduction in scheduled software downtime.
- Single point of control for managing all the virtual machines and monitoring their host machines.
- Encapsulation of complete machines into files for capture and recovery.
- Simplified and repeatable automated processes.
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Disaster recovery planning is not something that can be forgotten about once it has been completed - the best recovery plan is a live recovery plan; one that is tested and exercised regularly.
CONTACT US
To discuss your Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery needs, please contact Datapac:
Tel: 1850 328 272
Email: info@datapac.com
Alternatively, please fill in our online enquiry form, and a member of staff will contact you.
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