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The Challenges
When faced with disaster, the ability to deliver a consistent and cost effective business continuity service for your company is a vital factor in your business success.
As businesses become increasingly dependent upon their IT infrastructure, the cost of an IT systems failure and the consequences of a loss of data, becomes increasingly damaging. In today’s interconnected world, virtually every aspect of a company’s operations is vulnerable to disruption. Managers must recognise the business implications of a crippling event, be it a natural disaster, a major security breach, accident or a failure of their IT systems. The consequences can range from a loss of revenues, to a loss of critical business information and event of irreparable damage to a company’s brand. To this end Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery can no longer remain the concern of the IT department alone; it is a company-wide issue. CMGi Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity service minimises the impact of an IT failure or of systems going off-line; ensures that all critical data has been backed up; and ensures that data can be restored and put back online in line with client requirements.
From planning and design through implementation and management, formulating a disaster recovery strategy with CMGi allows companies to focus on what they do best, providing peace of mind without incurring massive infrastructure costs.
The Benefits
As your trusted outsourcing partner, CMGi already manage and monitor your network. As such our new Disaster Recovery Service provides a compelling solution to IT managers, in terms of improved service; reduced costs , greater security and resilience.
Some of the benefits include:
•Minimises the likelihood that mission critical IT systems will fail, by building resiliency and redundancy into the corporate IT network.
•Ensures that data has been stored and backed up in a systematic and timely manner, which minimises the risk of critical data loss.
•Ensures that the data can be restored and mission-critical applications put back online in the shortest possible time.
•Protects the company’s relationship with the customer, by preventing periods of unavailable systems and instances of data corruption and loss.
•Facilitates companies’ Recovery Point Objectives (RPO) for businesses that can not afford to lose data in the event of systems going down, particularly in the financial services, telecom or retail industries.
•Facilitates companies’ Recovery Time Objectives (RTO) for businesses that cannot afford to be off-line, particularly e-commerce firms.
•Fulfils the data protection and data storage requirements of regulated bodies, such as financial institutions, government agencies and pharmaceutical companies that need to comply with regulatory data requirements.
•Reduces insurance premiums and increases the speed with which an insurance payment will be made in the event of a systems failure.
•Prevents accidental and malicious loss of data by placing complete data sets in a physically secure environment, with resilient and redundant IT systems, fire prevention and back up power supply.
•Reduces business insurance costs by reducing the operational and financial consequences of a systems failure.
•Aids with compliance and security requirements in regulated industries, such as the financial services and pharmaceutical industries.
•Acts as a key differentiator and can be a source of competitive advantage.
Why CMGi
Our disaster recovery and business continuity offering provides you with a high quality and costeffective method of protecting your business from critical systems failure. With an end toend Business Continuity Plan (BCP) you can reduce the risk of disruptions to your operations and mitigate their impact if they are unavoidable.
Service Levels: With guaranteed Service Level Agreements( SLA), we can provide the level of support to our clients that their customers demand from them.
Technical Expertise: We pride ourselves on the highly skilled and multicertified team that we have built, which allows us to bring unmatched technical capability and expertise to every project. Over the years, our team have proven themselves, delivering on time every time.
Customised Solutions: A range of hot, warm and cold recovery options, to suit each client’s requirements, priorities and budgets.
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