Business Continuity Relies
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You can’t predict the next crisis, but you can be prepared for it.
Business Continuity Relies
What Is Business Continuity?
Business continuity is an organization’s ability to keep essential functions running during and after a disruptive event, whether that’s a natural disaster, a cyberattack, a hardware failure, or a simple human error. Rather than focusing on any single system, business continuity planning looks at the whole operation and asks how people, processes, and technology need to work together so customers, employees, and revenue are protected with minimal interruption.
Business Continuity vs. Disaster Recovery
The two terms are often used interchangeably, but they describe different pieces of the same puzzle. Disaster recovery is the technical process of restoring IT systems, applications, and data after an outage or failure. Business continuity is the broader strategy that covers how the entire organization keeps operating while that recovery happens, including staffing, communication, alternate workflows, and vendor relationships. In short, disaster recovery is one critical component inside a larger business continuity plan.
Core Components of a Business Continuity Plan
A solid plan typically includes a few core building blocks:
- Business impact analysis, which identifies critical functions and estimates the cost of downtime for each
- Risk assessment that flags the threats most likely to disrupt operations
- Documented recovery procedures and recovery time objectives for critical systems
- Communication plans for keeping employees, customers, and partners informed during a disruption
- Regular testing and plan reviews to confirm the strategy still works as the business changes
How Cloud Backup Supports Business Continuity
Recovery time objectives only mean something if your data is actually there when you need it. That’s why resilient, always-available storage sits at the center of most business continuity plans: it’s the foundation that recovery procedures, alternate workflows, and every other component ultimately depend on. The rest of this page covers how Zadara’s fully-managed backup solutions provide that foundation, without adding operational complexity.
You need increased data resiliency. You don’t need increased complexity. Zadara simplifies data backup and disaster recovery, by providing enterprise-class storage for every type of workload and every tier of storage in a single, fully-managed service. Pair our storage with our built-in backup software, or use third-party software such as solutions from our partners Veeam, Commvault and Asigra. Grow or shrink as needed, without risk. No disruptive upgrades or migrations, ever.
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Featuring ISO27001 and SOC-2 compliance, Zadara meets the strictest data security requirements.
Backup Simplified:
Zadara’s Backup to Object Storage (B2OS)
Backup to object-based storage eliminates the need for host-based backup software and provides a simple, easy-to-use, high performance, block-based backup process.
Need more than B2OS?
Choose One of Our Partners’ Solutions
Use Zadara’s built-in Backup to Object Storage (B2OS) for a simple, high-performance, block-based backup process. Or choose a backup software solution from one of our technology partners, including Veeam, Commvault and Asigra, for a powerful Backup-as-a-Service solution that can adapt as your needs grow and change.
MSPs:
Add Backup-as-a-Service to Your Portfolio
With Zadara you can deliver managed backup services to your customers, without making large investments in hardware or personnel. You deliver a valuable service to your customers. We do the work. Our worldwide team of storage experts provides 24/7 proactive monitoring, so you can concentrate on solving your customers’ strategic challenges and growing your business
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