Business Continuity – Solutions from PROFI AG

Ensuring a disruption doesn’t turn into downtime

Since IT became fully integrated into a company’s core business processes, IT high availability has become a key competitive advantage for many companies. Every company has different high availability requirements, so every solution is unique.

It is essential that a company protects itself against the threats and disruptions that, in its specific case, have a high probability of occurring or could cause immense damage. In addition to physical threats (water, fire, etc.), particular attention should be paid to the sharply increasing number of IT outages caused by crypto viruses.

To begin with, the following questions should be answered:

• Within what timeframe does your application need to be available again?
• What is the maximum tolerable data loss for your company?
• For how long can the application run in restricted mode (e.g., with slower response times)?
• How can planned outages be avoided during system maintenance, system changes, release updates, data backups, etc.?
• What fallback scenarios are in place to restore a working state in the event of a failed maintenance operation?
• How can IT or process disruptions be detected immediately, and how can preventive action be taken?
• Is the root cause of a problem identified right away?

“Only 6 percent of affected companies survive an IT crash (disaster scenario). 43 percent fail immediately, while the remaining 51 percent close within two years.”

– University of Texas

PROFI Services

Benefit from the expertise of our specialists:

• Comprehensive consulting: from the initial analysis to defining the right solution – from project implementation to ongoing support of the deployed solution
• Optimization of IT and business services (SLA)
• Holistic consulting on availability management topics
• Customer-focused technology consulting
• Fixed-price solutions
• Certified points of contact
• On-site / off-site support
• Intelligent high availability / disaster recovery sizing

Solution

The availability solution you choose must ensure that information and applications remain as accessible and available as necessary to maintain revenue, profitability, and productivity at an acceptable level, regardless of what planned or unplanned incidents occur.

Small and medium-sized businesses exposed to the risk of potentially devastating consequences from unplanned downtime can protect themselves from losses of time and money with a data availability solution.

A data availability solution should not pose major challenges and should fit within your financial means. There are affordable, user-friendly solutions that offer significant benefits to small and medium-sized businesses by minimizing the risks and consequences of unexpected IT outages.

A data and IT availability solution:

• reduces the risk of significant costs to the company, such as lost revenue, productivity loss, fines, and damage to brand reputation resulting from planned and unplanned downtime.
• safeguards business relationships with customers, partners, and suppliers by ensuring that applications and data are available to meet their requirements and deadlines.
• fulfills service agreements by maintaining predictable RTOs and RPOs in the event of IT outages.
• increases the profitability of existing resources by ensuring they are available for generating revenue and supporting business operations.
• ensures compliance with international government and trade regulations, as well as the availability of business data and reporting processes.

Whatever the cause of a system failure or IT service interruption may be: what really matters in every case is reducing or eliminating the risk of downtime during critical operating hours!