Improving Business Continuity with Gibraltar Solutions

Business Continuity Challenges

Implementing plans to ensure business continuity for IT infrastructure is an essential requirement for organizations today. Downtime of important applications is a costly proposition and extended downtime can even be fatal—industry research has shown that a significant number of companies that experience extended interruption to IT services are likely to go out of business. In fact, statistics have shown, 93 percent of companies that lost their data center for 10 days or more due to a disaster filed for bankruptcy within one year of the disaster.

• Difficulty meeting recovery time and availability goals. Many business continuity solutions fail to meet organizations’ requirements, leaving them at risk of extended downtime. Organizations are often unable to adequately protect more than a few privileged systems, particularly within their x86 server environment.
• High costs. Business continuity solutions become exponentially more expensive as availability requirements increase. Many solutions require significant investments in additional hardware, software and services. Disaster recovery plans in particular often require duplicating data center infrastructure. These requirements drive up the cost of business continuity and result in a proliferation of underutilized servers.
• High complexity. Traditional business continuity solutions are complex to implement, manage and execute. Managing the recovery infrastructure, maintaining up-to-date documentation of complex and often manual recovery procedures, and effectively testing plans all contribute significant complexity.
• Unreliable solutions: Testing complex business continuity solutions is challenging because testing often requires significant equipment and personnel resources. The complexity of traditional solutions makes them difficult to maintain. Ensuring that sufficient staff are trained and available to execute recovery plans is also problematic.
• Such challenges have limited the ability of organizations to implement effective business continuity plans. As a result, key IT services lack the protection they require, putting organizations at significant risk.

Delivering Effective Disaster Recovery

Organizations are turning to Gibraltar to address these challenges, because we enable effective disaster recovery for both physical and virtualized servers. Physical servers can be recovered to virtual machine recovery targets

in a “physical-to-virtual” recovery scenario. Even greater benefits can be realized in a “virtual-to-virtual” recovery scenario, where virtual machines in production are recovered to virtual machines.

Key benefits

• Customers using Gibraltar to improve their business continuity plans have realized the following benefits:
• Reduced downtime: Gibraltar helps customers prevent common causes of planned and unplanned downtime and minimize downtime when outages do occur.
• Lower costs: Gibraltar makes it possible for companies to implement better business continuity at a lower cost by slashing the need for additional hardware and specialized software.
• Simplified processes: Gibraltar removes the complexity of maintaining duplicate physical systems for disaster recovery. It also eliminates and streamlines much of the recovery process.
• Expanded protection: Because Gibraltar reduces the cost of busniess continuity solutions, companies can cost-effectively increase availability and ensure more rapid disaster recovery for more of their important applications.

Check out Gibraltar Virtual Disaster Recover Services and Virtual Data Centers for additional information.

Passion leading to excellence

At Gibraltar, our passion is IT. Since our inception in 1996, we have parlayed this passion to help thousands of organizations transform their IT infrastructure. Our clients range from large financial organizations with 75,000+ employees to local boutique firms with 20 associates. Thanks to our unsurpassed team of highly skilled and experienced technology engineers, you can trust Gibraltar to have the right solution for you.

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