Por que é que o planeamento da continuidade das atividades deve acompanhar os riscos dos centros de dados
As part of his ongoing contributions to Forbes councils, Connecting Software CEO Thomas Berndorfer urged business leaders to be more mindful of the risks data centers face when thinking about their Business Continuity Planning (BCP) strategy.
Data center outages are becoming more frequent and more devastating to the economy, as nearly every business has some exposure to the cloud. Thomas argued that despite the millions spent on security, "it's nearly impossible to protect these buildings from everything, especially as they have become increasingly attractive targets for geopolitical adversaries and cybercriminals."
In the context of these risks, Thomas argued that businesses need to keep three things in mind:
First, both IT and company leadership should identify the essential processes within the company that would be affected by a complete cloud outage. For instance, how would remote teams communicate if there were no email or internal message system? How would sales teams access critical contracts without access to the CRM? If outside cloud services are integral to important business functions, you need a well-thought-out and well-communicated plan to continue without it.
Second, they would need to identify current service level agreements and contractual obligations an outage could affect. Would important clients be affected if your systems went down? When would it trigger the cancellation of contracts? The greater the possible effect, the greater the urgency for a more total solution
Third, are there viable alternatives to your processes? If you work via Microsoft, is there a Google equivalent that could do the work similarly? If so, companies should start the work to train their employees on differing systems to ensure they aren’t caught on the back foot if one goes down.
Connecting Software's solutions help businesses to stay flexible and resilient in the face of data center and cloud outages by synchronizing different environments seamlessly and bi-directionally - whether from a cloud to another provider, or from the cloud to an on-premises local solution.
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