Cloud software models have gained substantial momentum in recent years. The cloud lifts the bulk of software and storage off of personal computers and on-premises servers and puts them in a 3rd party off-site location to be accessed by users via the Internet. The concept of Cloud services is that the overhead, cost, and time of running your applications and the infrastructure that supports them is shifted to your vendor.
While concerns about the security of the cloud may persist, we posed our own questions. Why would BCP planners want their business continuity plans on in-house servers that the plans are intended to recover if a disaster strikes? If downtime occurs and plan users can’t access their plans, what good are they?
There are many cloud BCP software benefits. Here’s why we put ResilienceONE® into the clod – and why our user base of over 36,000 people have followed us there.
In-house BCP software installations on in-house servers and/or computers require configuration of the hardware and software. Collaboration over the network or via other communication platforms must also be implemented and can incur high personnel, hardware, and time costs.
By operating ResilienceONE® in the cloud, we are responsible for the maintenance of the hardware, software, and telecommunications – not you. We have saved customers the time and money of managing it in-house and maintaining it themselves. We also perform seamless software updates so that our users can realize upgrades in hours instead of months.
BCP software in the cloud opens up powerful and collaborative computer power that was once cost-prohibitive to many. By offering ResilienceONE® in the cloud, we have drastically reduced costs. NOTE: Inputting data into software that exists online may not be cloud software. Consult our BCP Software Comparison for more information.
Security problems are nothing new to IT managers. Housing data internally has always been fraught with security risks. Attacks from disgruntled employees and malicious viruses that compromise confidential data have been commonplace for even the most secure companies. The key has always been proper management of these risks. As with internal IT, third party providers must also meet certain security standards.
We store the plans and date of our ResilienceONE® users on two redundant SAS-70 Type II Certified server sites – included in our pricing. We maintain stringent requirements from a contractual and service-level standpoint and ensure that security is maintained at pristine levels.
For many organizations, the cost and time to acquire and implement the latest security mechanisms may be difficult or impossible to achieve. We utilize the latest measures across a cost-effective platform, allowing organizations, both large and small, to get a higher level of security than is typically achievable internally.
Redundancy is a core concept of both BCP and the cloud. Many organizations have mistakenly put their BCP within the same infrastructure as their primary operations, creating a single point of failure.
All business continuity professionals know that having access to plans is critical during a disaster. As opposed to binders full of paper plans or static software accessed internally, our ResilienceONE® cloud BCP software provides redundancy, allowing users to gain access to their plans via any Internet connection, as opposed to tying them to a network or an in-house PC.
Server downtime is part of every business continuity plan. If internal servers housing your plan are damaged, and a work site holding paper plans is affected an inaccessible, how resilient will you be? How fast will you be able to mitigate loss?
