As if running a business wasn’t already hard enough, an unexpected disaster can be an absolute nightmare.
Power outages, flooding, fire or even a careless driver downing a telephone pole all have the potential to interrupt your daily operations, and the implications can be serious enough that many businesses never recover. Research firm Gartner estimates that two out of five businesses that experience a disaster will go out of business within five years.
Proper disaster recovery (DR) planning can help you beat the odds, but that planning must be done now and continually revisited to ensure it continues to meet changing business requirements. This takes a significant expenditure in money and resources, which is why many businesses – especially small ones with few in-house DR capabilities – often end up with inadequate DR policies and technologies. Sadly, many of those businesses only find out their policies are inadequate when it’s too late.
Because they shift computing and data management to a purpose-built facility designed to withstand any kind of disaster, managed services are an easy, effective way to improve any company’s DR capabilities. Having invested millions of dollars to build a redundant data centre environment that follows industry best practice, BlueFire is able to offer a suite of Managed Disaster Recovery (MDR) services that can help companies of any size get back up and running almost immediately in the event of a disaster.
Should your business be unlucky enough to suffer an interruption, your data and applications will be ready and waiting for you once you’re able to set up temporary office space. Send your employees home to continue working on their own computers, rent a managed office downtown, gather your staff in your living room or raid the local Internet café – it doesn’t matter how you get online, but once you’re there you’ll have access to the same data and applications you were using in your office – using nothing more than a standard Web browser. Just flip a switch, and the rest of the company can get back to work while you manage the disaster recovery effort.
MDR is possible because BlueFire hosts its customers’ data, applications and even their desktops from its highly secure, fully redundant facilities in Sydney’s central business district. Specialised software ensures even data at small branch offices is stored on BlueFire’s ultra-reliable infrastructure. Supported by experienced staff 24x7, the facilities are protected against interruption with fully redundant power, communications links, equipment and data mirroring. So even if your office loses contact, BlueFire will be there, ready and waiting, to help ensure the continuity of your business.