IT industry is running at a speed that demands business continuity as a key to success. So, to capture up to the fast-growing business demands, run for constant execution is the necessity of the entire hour. As of this juncture, IT downtime either as a result of internal failure or as a consequence of unexpected natural incident remains to be always a key concern for many firms. Exactly what does an IT Downtime suggest To a business? According to Gartner, IT downtime costs companies an impressive USD 5600 each and every minute, equaling to around USD 300K per hour.
Gartner says that this is an average, and figures differ predicated on the characteristics of the business and environment. The study indicates losses to the extent of USD 140K-540K per hour on the average. Looking at these figures, you can measure the extent of loss that an unexpected incident can cause to a business on multiple fronts. There are many such both reported and unreported. The industry presents a single solution for all those such challenges, i.e. Disaster Recovery.
While there is a ‘Backup’ option to avoid data reduction, it has some limitations in comparison to Disaster Recovery (DR). Backups decrease the risk of data reduction. Whereas, a DR infrastructure avoids downtime completely. Many CIOs wish to have Disaster Recovery (DR) systems running in their operating environment and the key aspect they consider in DR strategy is the difference in ‘ability to recovery’ on-premise and an outsourced hosting environment. Lack of …