Why the Mid-Market Needs Geo-Redundant Active-Active Disaster Recovery

Why the mid-market needs active-active disaster recovery

Mid-market organizations are increasingly relying on technology to support their business operations. As a result, they are also becoming more vulnerable to data loss and downtime. Natural disasters, cyber-attacks, a rogue employee, and hardware failures are just a few of the catastrophic events that can wreak havoc on your business operations. For mid-market companies, these disruptions can be even more devastating as they often lack the resources to quickly recover from such incidents. That’s why disaster recovery is critical for businesses of all sizes. But what if there was a solution that could not only ensure business continuity but also provide seamless failover capabilities? Enter geo-redundant Active-Active Disaster Recovery (DR) – a game-changing technology that could transform the way mid-market businesses approach disaster recovery. In this white paper, we’ll explore the benefits of this innovative and affordable solution and how it can help mid-market companies stay one step ahead in today’s fast-paced digital landscape.

What’s the cost of downtime?

In 2014 a Gartner report stated that downtime for the average midmarket organizations was $5,600 per minute, or about $300,000 per hour, or $2.4M per day. The data from this report is almost a decade old now, so we know that the cost for downtime has increased substantially. Even if you’re organization is a smaller midmarket, downtime could easily exceed $1M per day.

The cost of downtime can be measured in more than just lost revenue. The loss of productivity has to be considered, as well as data loss, brand reputation, and recovery costs. Each of these is as important as the other, especially given the difficulty in recovering lost data or dissatisfied customers.

If your backups run overnight and you find yourself in a situation where you need to rollback or failover due to an unexpected system or network failure, you will have lost a day’s worth of data. Nfina’s storage solutions use non-intrusive immutable snapshots that do not slow production. High frequency snapshots can be taken as often as every fifteen minutes. More backups give you more restore points. If you experience a cyber-attack or failure, you can restore from a backup that was taken just minutes earlier, not one from the previous night, thus saving your organization millions.

How the mid-market can take advantage of geo-redundant active-active DR

The mid-market is a crucial segment of the economy, composed of businesses that are too large to be considered small businesses but too small to compete with larger enterprise corporations. These companies often have limited resources and personnel, making it difficult for them to implement complex disaster recovery solutions.

However, Nfina’s geo-redundant active-active disaster recovery can be an affordable and effective solution for mid-market companies. With this approach, data centers are replicated across multiple locations in different geographic regions. This ensures that even if one location experiences an outage or fails completely, the other location can continue operations seamlessly.

Implementing geo-redundant active-active DR is not only possible but also practical for mid-market businesses. By leveraging hybrid cloud and cost-effective solutions designed specifically for smaller organizations’ needs will ensure business continuity when disasters strike without breaking the bank on expensive equipment or lengthy deployments timescales.

What to look for in a geo-redundant active-active DR solution

When it comes to choosing a geo-redundant active-active disaster recovery solution, there are several factors that mid-market businesses should consider. First and foremost, the solution should be able to provide minimal uninterrupted access to critical applications and data in the event of a disaster or outage.

One key feature to look for is rapid failover capabilities. This ensures that if one site goes down, traffic will quickly be redirected to another active site. Additionally, the solution should have robust monitoring and reporting tools such as Nfina-View™ so that IT teams can easily identify issues before they become major problems.

Another important consideration is scalability. As your business grows, so too will your storage needs. Your disaster recovery solution should be able to scale up as your business grows.

It’s essential that you choose a vendor with experience implementing geo-redundant active-active solutions DR for mid-market customers like yours. Look for reviews and case studies from other businesses in your industry who have successfully implemented similar solutions.

The benefits of Nfina’s geo-redundant active-active disaster recovery

Geo-redundant active-active DR offers a range of benefits for midmarket businesses including:

Increased Availability – Nfina’s DR solutions provide continuous availability of critical systems and data, even in the event of an outage or failure. Nfina’s solutions ensure that business operations continue uninterrupted.

Higher Frequency of Backups – Nfina’s unique storage solutions utilizes non-intrusive immutable snapshots that do not slow down production, therefore high frequency snapshots can be taken as often as every fifteen minutes. If you experience a cyber-attack or failure, you can rollback or failover to your last backup that was taken just minutes earlier.

Minimize Risk and Downtime – Nfina’s DR solutions offer seamless failover capabilities allowing you can replicate your entire IT infrastructure across multiple locations, ensuring that critical applications and services remain available even if one site goes down. This approach helps minimize the risk of data loss while also reducing recovery time objectives (RTOs) by enabling near-instant failover capabilities.

Improved Scalability and Flexibility – As companies grow and expand into new markets, they need a solution that can adapt quickly without sacrificing performance or reliability. Nfina’s DR solutions means there’s no need for downtime during maintenance or upgrades. Maintenance is easy, simply failover to the remote location while maintenance or upgrades are being carried out, then failback when completed.

Reduced Costs – Nfina’s DR solutions are very affordable and are half the cost of public hyperscale cloud solutions that don’t include DR.

Increased employee productivity – By keeping businesses up and running during disruptions, Nfina’s geo-redundant active-active DR can help to increase employee productivity.

Improved Customer Satisfaction – Nfina’s DR solutions ensure maximum uptime and performance for your business-critical applications while minimizing disruption caused by individual hardware or software failures. With improved application availability comes increased customer satisfaction, which ultimately translates into more revenue and better business outcomes – offering peace of mind for both IT teams and business executives.

Improved Customer Satisfaction – Nfina’s DR solutions minimizes the impact of disruptions on customer service. With improved application availability comes increased customer satisfaction, which ultimately translates into more revenue and better business outcomes.

Enhanced Brand Reputation: By demonstrating a commitment to business continuity, active-active DR solutions can help to enhance an organization’s brand reputation.

In summary, by implementing Nfina’s active-active DR solution that utilizes geo-redundancy, midmarket businesses can enjoy several benefits including seamless failover capabilities, reduced downtime during disruptions or outages, improved system performance and increased data protection at an affordable cost – offering peace of mind for both IT teams and business executives.

Conclusion

Geo-redundant active-active disaster recovery is a crucial investment for mid-market companies that want to ensure business continuity in the event of an outage or disaster. Nfina’s DR solutions provide continuous availability and near-zero RPOs and RTOs, allowing businesses to maintain operations without losing data or productivity.

The mid-market must take proactive steps towards securing their IT infrastructure by adopting geo-redundant active-active DR solutions. It’s no longer an option but rather an essential component of business continuity planning given how much we rely on technology today. The key takeaway here is always be prepared; have faith in your DR plan so you can continue running your applications regardless of what happens.

By implementing an active-active DR solution that utilizes geo-redundancy, midmarket businesses can enjoy several benefits including seamless failover capabilities, reduced downtime, improved system performance and increased data protection. By partnering with a trusted provider like Nfina who offers these features while also being affordable for midmarket companies can improve the chances of success.

If you’re a midmarket organization looking for an efficient disaster recovery plan to protect your data and applications from disruptions without breaking the bank, consider adopting Nfina’s geo-redundant active-active disaster recovery solution. Contact Nfina today to learn more about our backup and DR solutions, it might be one of your best decisions yet!

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