Hold on to all the key information

Nov 20 2007 By The Journal

TODAY’S businesses are fuelled by information. From the smallest firms to the largest corporations, information is what makes everything tick.

So imagine for a second how your business would function if access to your information was interrupted. Would you be able to operate all your business processes? How would your customers react to falling service levels?

Fire, flood and events of a similar nature hit the headlines. However, they are fortunately still relatively rare. Disasters relating to an IT failure are 65% to 80% more likely – in other words, people, paperwork and premises are unaffected but IT systems have been rendered unavailable.

Research has also revealed that only 44% of companies use data restoration or back-up software for disaster recovery purposes, only 9% of organisations use data replication software and just 5% use high availability clustering software.

Building a resilient IT environment is not a simple task, but not impossible. With the support of an experienced partner, it can be achieved at a lower cost than you may think.

IT Professional Services Ltd (ITPS) is one of the leading solutions providers of disaster recovery and business continuity planning in the North-East. Its experience of managing and supporting a diverse range of IT environments ensures it can plan, implement and support solutions across multiple platforms.

With a datacentre infrastructure spanning three North-East datacentres and a track record of customer site solutions, high availability and resilience is at the top of its agenda. To support this ITPS has made a huge investment in its datacentre environment, communications infrastructure and, most importantly, highly skilled people.

Even if you haven't started the process yet or are not sure of your current plans ITPS is now offering a free initial Business Risk Assessment Workshop. It is guaranteed to be a thought-provoking exercise helping you decide how to move forward.

The workshop is applicable to businesses of all sizes and is not just technology-orientated. It is equally applicable to business managers who want to ensure their IT resilience matches their business requirements and to IT professionals who want help building a business case for increased resilience and high availability.

Further details can be obtained from David Pledger at IT Professional Services on (0191) 442-8300 or david.pledger@it-ps.com.