Disaster recovery is important for enterprises because it’s a fact that when it rains, it floods. Companies are always under pressure to cut costs while “big data” is still a responsibility that businesses upkeep. While servers, storage facilities, and data centers are all flexible and many vendors do offer redundancy, the possibility of losing data – and hence the risk – is inevitable. Disaster recovery, however, isn’t on everyone’s to-do list.
As such, here are a few trends that are sweeping the industry as we speak:
It’s not on priority, as it should be
Forrester Research reveals that enterprise disaster recovery and business continuity are still not the top priority for businesses – and nowhere close to the level it should be at. Only 6% of the average IT capital and operating costs are assigned to disaster recovery or business continuity. Maximum amount of budgets still go for Virtualization, business intelligence, consolidation, hardware, software, and Cloud Computing.
Need for protection and business continuity is on the rise
While the budgets allocated for business community is minimal, the need to protect data, maintain continuity of business operations regardless of external or internal risks, the ever-demanding nature of SLA’s, and the very reputation of the company in jeopardy are all on the rise. With businesses switching to the cloud or to ERP solutions, there’s the need for efficient data recovery in the event of major disasters – be it to recovery one single file, a column of data, or the entire computing system businesses depend on.
Virtualization is built-in insurance for Disaster recovery
With virtualization, you essentially separate physical hardware from servers and networks. That is like buying insurance for your data and essential applications automatically. Virtualization renders itself well for disaster recovery since you can set-up a virtual machine anywhere and recovery data from anywhere. As more and more companies take to virtualization, disaster recovery – as a process – becomes that much more easier and more efficient to deploy especially with fast and utilitarian replication software or regular cloud-based or physical backups.
Vendors have a mission for faster disaster recovery
Businesses are lucky in the sense that vendors take in on themselves to ensure business continuity – both for themselves and for their clients. For vendors, the key focus is on creating or fine-tuning replication systems, disaster recovery applications, and to rejig their hardware to ensure complete and efficient disaster recovery for their clients. Vendors also have SLAs in place along with the aim to shorten Virtualized disaster recovery times.
At Network Pro, for instance, it’s our sole mission to ensure strategic business community planning for our clients. The faster our clients get back to doing business, the better it is for us.
We aim to protect your business. How do you intend to allow us to help you?
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