Business continuity is the ability of an organization to maintain critical functions during and after a problem occurs. Business continuity planning involves establishing processes and procedures to manage risk by preventing disruptions to important things while quickly and effectively restoring business functions.
Business continuity is useful for considering the risks posed by various disruptions, such as a crisis caused by a pandemic, competition from competitors, or cyber-attacks. Therefore, the right steps must be taken to design and implement a strong business continuity plan.
One of the steps that can be taken is to build a resilient IT infrastructure.The success and competitiveness of businesses often depends heavily on the ability of their IT infrastructure to support evolving technological requirements.
Therefore, what are the key components that organizations need to implement in order to have a robust IT infrastructure that supports business continuity? Find out in this article.
The Importance of a Resilient IT Infrastructure for Business Continuity
A resilient IT infrastructure is one of the most important aspects of maintaining business continuity in the digital age. It enables companies to run their day-to-day operations smoothly, protects data from security threats, and allows businesses to grow and innovate.
A scalable and innovative infrastructure also plays a role in maintaining business continuity in the face of disruptions such as natural disasters or cyberattacks. In addition, a reliable and efficient system enables businesses to provide better services that can increase customer satisfaction.
Arguably, investing in a strong IT infrastructure is a strategic move for companies to create a competitive advantage and stay relevant in the ever-evolving business world. This concept has evolved and is known as IT resiliency, a framework that enables organizations to keep critical infrastructure, systems and applications up and running in the event of a disaster or disruption.
3 Key Components of a Resilient IT Infrastructure
In order to present a resilient IT infrastructure, there are three main keys that need to be implemented, which are continuous availability, workload mobility, and cloud agility. Check out the detailed explanation below.
Continuous Availability
Ensure that data and applications remain available despite significant disruptions or downtime with the following three objectives.
High Availability
The ability of a system or service to remain active around the clock with little or no downtime. This is achieved by using advanced redundancy, failover, and monitoring technologies to prevent interruptions in system operations.
Disaster Recovery
The process of restoring systems and data after a disaster or unexpected event that disrupts system operations. This process involves planning, data protection, data replication, and recovery strategies to ensure that the business can resume operations.
Backup and Recovery
The process of regularly backing up critical data and applications to prevent data loss due to hardware failure, human error, or disaster. Recovery is the process of restoring backed up data in the event of data loss or corruption.
Workload Mobility
The ability to migrate applications or workloads from one computing environment to another without significant disruption. This provides flexibility in managing IT resources and optimizing application performance and availability.
Cloud Agility
The ability to adapt and respond to changing business needs using cloud services. This includes the ability to dynamically and quickly manage cloud resources, increase or decrease capacity based on business needs, and design solutions that are responsive to market changes.
Multicloud
The strategy of using more than one cloud service provider to run applications or workloads. The goal is to optimize performance, security, and cost by leveraging the benefits of each cloud provider.
Hybrid Cloud
IT infrastructure that combines public and private clouds. The hybrid cloud allows organizations to run workloads in the private cloud while leveraging the public cloud for scalability and flexibility.
Read more: Why Can Hybrid Cloud Help You Getting into the Market Rapidly and Scalable?
With these three key components to building a resilient IT infrastructure, it's time to learn the right strategy. Three leading technology companies-Huawei, xFusion, and Rubrik-can help you with three advanced and reliable solutions.
The right strategy for building a resilient IT infrastructure
Building a resilient IT infrastructure requires a strategy of selecting the right technology solutions to meet business needs. Huawei OceanStor Dorado, xFusion FusionOne VMware HCI, and Rubrik Backup and Recovery solutions can help enterprises build a robust, scalable, and easy-to-manage IT infrastructure for business continuity.
Huawei OceanStor Dorado
Huawei OceanStor Dorado is an all-flash storage solution designed to deliver the high speed, reliability, and scalability required for IT infrastructure. This solution is suitable for enterprises that require fast data access and high availability, especially for large workloads. OceanStor Dorado is also scalable, allowing organizations to increase storage capacity as needed as data grows.
When building a resilient IT infrastructure, Huawei Ocean Storage Dorado provides the following benefits
Innovative storage and resilient computing platform with unmatched speed by combining end-to-end NVMe technology and Huawei FLASHLINK
Enterprise-class data protection for service stability with SmartMatrix 3.0 architecture, SSD wear-leveling technology with MTBF of 3 million hours and RAID-TP to handle simultaneous three-disk failures
Smart O&M with storage-cloud combination for lower costs
xFusion FusionOne VMware HCI
FusionOne VMware HCI is a converged solution that combines computing, storage, and virtualization in a single system. This solution is designed to simplify and reduce IT operating costs by eliminating the need for separate hardware and software. FusionOne VMware HCI is built on VMware vSphere and can be deployed on-premises or in the cloud.
In addition to providing a reliable and stable HCI infrastructure that is easy to operate and maintain, FusionOne VMware HCI offers the following benefits
Quick and easy one-click deployment and simplified operations and maintenance
Innovative system technology, algorithms and components that enable optimized server performance
Easy scalability to meet business needs, enabling better growth over time
Rubrik Backup and Recovery
Rubrik Backup and Recovery is a solution specifically designed to ensure efficient data protection and fast recovery of IT infrastructure. It includes features such as deduplication, instant recovery, and ransomware protection to ensure business continuity.
The Rubrik Backup and Recovery solution eliminates the complexity of managing data protection and provides other benefits, such as.
Reduce admin time by up to 90 percent with automated backup and protection across hybrid and multi-cloud IT environments
Disaster recovery in minutes with near-zero RTO
Reduce TCO by 30-50 percent to save on storage and costs
Build a Resilient IT Infrastructure with Virtus Expert Team
It's time to build a solid foundation for your business IT infrastructure to ensure business continuity with solutions from Huawei OceanStor Dorado, xFusion FusionOne VMware HCI, and Rubrik Backup and Recovery. Virtus Technology Indonesia (VTI), as an authorized partner of Huawei, xFusion, and Rubrik, will help organizations implement these three combinations quickly and securely. Virtus' experienced, certified, and competent IT team ensures all processes from consulting, deployment, management, and after-sales support.
Discuss your business needs with Virtus today. For more information on Huawei OceanStor Dorado, xFusion FusionOne VMware HCI, dan Rubrik Backup and Recovery, contact our team by clicking here.
Author: Wilsa Azmalia Putri
Content Writer of CTI GROUP
