Business Continuity

The availability of computer data is becoming more and more important in today’s society where computers play an ever increasing role in our lives. Most consumers and companies protect themselves against the unexpected in the form of insurance. This insurance can almost always pay out for tangible assets such as computer equipment, but not for computer data.

Just imagine that you lost all your computer data tomorrow? Would it matter? Could you continue with your day-to-day business activities and would it affect your customer relationships?

The availability of computer data plays a significant part in IT security.

Data loss can be due to a number of reasons including:

Human Error
Hardware Failure
Operating System Failure
Fire/Smoke/Water Damage
Power Cuts and Surges
Employee Theft
Virus’s and Hacking attempts
Spyware/Malware Software
Natural Disasters
Terrorist Attacks

We can offer backup services over your Internet connection. These backups do not require operator intervention as tapes do, are immediately offsite, and protect your business immediately on completion of the initial backup. This is a basic form of protection and better than nothing, but to keep your business running when a problem occurs it can be taken so much further.

This is where our virtualization solutions can help, as it is possible to provide virtualized solutions that have in-built business continuity features for the same cost of a standard physical system - something we have already helped some of our SME customers to achieve.

We can also supply solutions to mirror your own hosted systems to a virtualized replica in our data centre, which then allows you to continue to deliver an IT service in the event of a major IT outage with your own systems. We can extend this service to your desktops and even provide an IP phone system so your entire business can continue to be productive from any alternative location - including the homes of your staff - while your main system is recovered. This on it’s own can make the difference between failing and surviving.

As with any solution the design is key to delivery and we will work with you to provide a business continuity solution to suit your requirements and budget. There can be no more important issue in a world where competition is so high and downtime is so critical to your business.