Always, always, have a backup plan.
This is a very simple message that everyone—especially massive data centers and enterprises—must adhere to. As a recent blog post from TeamSupport reveals, even the slightest mishap can muck up your business’s most basic operations. The example cited in the blog post involves a planned customer call in which the client mysteriously disappeared when the hour was at hand.
Upon a follow-up TeamSupport learned that a truck had smashed into a pole near the client’s quarters, resulting in a power outage that lasted two hours. Safe to say, that the missed meeting was the least of the client’s concerns. If an event as random as truck crashing into a pole can stunt business operations, what might a big storm or natural disaster so?
Lesser things have disrupted much bigger operations. A perfect example occurred last month, when a raven flew into a substation in Canada. The result? Approximately 2,800 customers were left without power. While no one got it as bad as the raven, that power transmission company must have been kicking itself for not having an uninterruptible power system in place.
While your enterprise probably doesn’t need an uninterruptable power system—unless of course your enterprise happened to be a power supplier—it certainly needs to have some sort of security or backup system in place to prevent untimely, and unfortunate shutdowns. SaaS (News - Alert) companies offer a wide variety of services including these backup plans, so by golly use them. There are plenty of options out there, and they can make all the difference for any business that needs to be continuously up and running to at least some degree.
And hopefully the SaaS vendor you go with has a backup plan for its backup plan, so that your backup plan never backs down.
How very meta this has all become.
Edited by Maurice Nagle