3 different approaches to your business continuity plan

With all the advancements in technology today, you might think unplanned downtime has well gone down but it's actually increased. Outages last longer and cost more, nearly ten thousand dollars a minute for the average enterprise. Given what you're up against; how do you plan to stay up and running 100% of the time, what changes do you need to make to your backup and disaster recovery plan, are you ready to back up applications into the cloud now or is that a few years away.

We have often heard about business continuity plan. This is when you combine the backup plan and the disaster recovery plan.

Three different approaches for business continuity plan:

Let's walk through three different approaches to building a healthy IT infrastructure.

 Classic Model:

This is the traditional route. Mirrored hardware assets are situated geographically on diverse locations. Schedule data replication occurs between these sites. This is often done between an on-premise data center and a colocation facility that offers 100% uptime. Service level agreement this could be ideal for legacy applications or for businesses and industries that have compliance and regulatory requirements.

Virtual Model:

Virtual model this is where you have a primary site running a virtualized server environment and then backup everything in a pay-as-you-go cloud solution. This can be incredibly cost effective especially when your primary site is in a colocation facility. This offers direct connections to those cloud providers. Direct connectivity can mean 60 to 70 percent savings on data transfer rates and reduced networking fees when compared to connecting over public internet.

Hybrid Model:

This approach is a combination of the classic and virtual models, enterprises backup some applications in a dedicated environment and other applications in the cloud. The hybrid model could mean the best of both worlds, allowing you to right-size the solution to your business objectives.

Which model makes sense for your business? Take a step back and evaluate there are pros and cons to each a pro whether you are going classic virtual or hybrid choose a solution that supports you now and into the future. Colocation provides dedicated infrastructure with 100% uptime service level agreements.

Cloud based solutions provide cloud disaster recovery and cloud backup all together. You can acquire any of the model to ensure the business continuity.