Delivering business continuity for vital applications

Best practices for surviving data centre disasters

Published March 2017

Ask yourself: What does it cost in lost revenue if a customer-facing system is unavailable? What is the impact, to the business or your customers, of losing customer transactions in-flight? For that matter, what does it cost your business in terms of lost productivity if your email or unified communication and collaboration systems fail? What if there is a fire in the data centre, power is lost, or an earthquake causes damage, effectively taking the centre offline? What happens next?

These things happen more often than you might think. Ninety-five percent of enterprises have experienced at least one unplanned data centre outage in the past 24 months not just an individual system but an entire data centre.