Business continuity: how long your company can stop and what it costs to avoid it
High availability is not a product you buy, it is a business decision. Our job is to translate that decision into infrastructure proportional to each company’s real risk.
The two questions that decide everything
How long can the company run without its system: an hour, half a day, two days? And how much data can you afford to lose: the last five minutes or the last night?
Everything else follows from those two answers. Without them, any quote is a shot in the dark.
The levels we usually propose
Not every company needs the same, nor does every system inside the same company. We separate the critical from the important and from the merely convenient.
- Daily backup and restore within hours: enough for most workstations and office data
- Server replica booting in minutes: for the ERP, email or production application
- Redundant storage and clustered servers: when one hour of downtime already costs real money
- Second location or cloud: to cover fire, theft, flooding or a long outage
What fails on the bad day
It is rarely the technology that was bought that fails: it is what nobody tested. The backup that had not completed for months, the supplier contact who left, the password stored on the server that just went down.
That is why the plan includes a drill. We restore for real, time it and fix whatever was slow.
How we work it through with the client
We start with a simple impact analysis in business language: which processes stop, how many people are affected and what each hour of downtime costs.
The decision is always the client’s; our role is to make sure it is taken with the numbers on the table.
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What would one day of downtime cost your company?
We run the analysis with you and propose the level of protection that matches that number.
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