How long can you tolerate your business interruption?
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What your acceptable time for business interruption?
333体育 has been dedicated to “How to ensure business continuity” for 30 years, and is the pioneer in business continuity high availability solutions and exploiter of market. In early years, Rose is engaged in protecting the continuity of kernel businesses on mini computers. With the evolution and maturity of SW/HW and base architecture, Rose can provide overall solution to protect the continuity of kernel business systems on physical server, VM and cloud environment, which are based on architectures like x86, ARM etc.
The fact tells us that when the mobile payment function of smart phone is stopped by manufacture, those peoples who is used to mobile payment must change to cash payment, which will hold up their daily life and travel plan, and further break the social orders. Surely, this is just one of business interruption cases. Through we have stepped into a highly-intelligent information age, the continuous and stable operation of business system still confronts many potential risks: HW fault, logic error, ransomware attack, human error, natural disaster, political/economical/military conflicts etc.
When the business is interrupted, it is obligatory to recover it as soon as possible. This will be affected by which proper business continuity solution is selected when building the solutions in early times. The levels of system high availability(High available, abbreviated as “HA”) is described as X pcs of 9. Generally, three to five pcs of 9 will be used, namely:
On business continuity solution level and based on the time consumed to recover interrupted business, we can divide it into the following 3 levels:
Now what we need to consider is:when our business continuity is influenced, how long business interruption is allowed?
The answer is mainly determined by the value brought by business system continuity and the awareness & evaluation of loss caused by business interruption. The higher the business continuity value is, the higher requirement for business continuity is required, and vice versa. After learning about levels of business continuity requirements and applicable solutions, it is easy to select the business continuity protection solution according to the characteristics and function of user business system.