reduce risk

replace risk with reliability

You can stay up late at night worrying, or you can make sure your IT infrastructure can protect your data and services from downtime—and your business from lost revenue.

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Risk to your business comes in many forms. There are natural disasters and economic downturns, as well as legal and regulatory compliance issues. And, of course, there are IT issues. While Hollywood glamorizes corporate spies dangling from ropes in the elevator shaft or the nerd bravado of a teenage hacker cracking firewalls for kicks, the most common risks for your enterprise are both boring and preventable.

What does “secure” mean?
One of the first scenarios people imagine about IT security is intrusion from the outside. And while that threat is real and requires appropriate measures, there are many other factors that create “IT insecurity”. For example, many companies have mission-critical applications on servers that are in the back of a storage room or under a desk. The cleaning crew could kick the power cord or the solitary server could just fail, causing downtime for an important service that affects the business.

Time to recovery
Even in larger companies with disaster recovery plans, the actual recovery procedure can involve transporting physical backups and staff driving or flying to distant locations. During this arduous process, critical information is unavailable to workers, partners, and customers—and revenue is lost.

Risky business
Downtime leads to a cascade of related costs. Deadlines or SLAs missed because services were offline could lead to penalties and charges. You can incur overtime to make up for lost productivity and your customers may look to your competitors. Downtime costs more than money—it can cost you customers.

Redundancy. Recovery. Reliability.

True IT security is about redundancy, recovery, and reliability. You need redundancy in both infrastructure and data protection for critical files and business services. Then you need a business continuity plan that can restore operations in minutes or hours—not days. This adds up to IT reliability that protects your business from the many unglamorous causes of downtime and lost revenue.

The iland solution
The iland Continuity Cloud© [1] is specifically designed to provide cost-effective business continuity options to enterprises of all sizes. iland [2] provides not just a replication target for your data, but the entire infrastructure solution including redundant, standby resources.

With the iland Continuity Cloud, your backup infrastructure is always in place. So you can run and restore business applications in addition to restoring data access. This lets you minimize downtime, quickly get business processes back up and running, and reduce impact to your customers and partners.

Protect your desktop data
After securing your servers and the data they contain, there’s another IT vulnerability that you can easily avoid. Think about the thousands of hours of work and countless documents and spreadsheets with vital content like sales reports, prospect lists, and new marketing programs your workforce has created. Now think about how much of that isn’t backed up to your servers and exists only a single PC or laptop hard drive.

Put your desktop in the cloud
The iland Workforce Cloud© [3] puts your desktop environment in the cloud, alongside your application servers—closing the loop between your desktops and your datacenter. It provides a unified platform that integrates desktop data with the business continuity solution for your hosted servers, data, and services.

The tools to reduce risk
With iland cloud infrastructure [4] solutions you can add redundancy, recovery, and reliability to your IT strategy. You can secure datacenter and desktop data with a backup and restoration plan that minimizes downtime from hurricanes or lost laptops. Luck isn’t enough. Know you’re prepared with iland cloud infrastructure.