Business Continuity

Improve Business Continuity with Virtualization

While disasters and unplanned downtime get the big headlines, planned downtime for hardware maintenance and backups is the cause of most service interruptions. Leading server, desktop and application virtualization products let you eliminate planned downtime, ensure data protection, deliver high availability and be better prepared for disaster recovery. Virtualize your datacenter or critical applications – on site or at Concept - and make it easier to deploy:

• Data protection, including non-disruptive automated backup and restore processes
• High availability through reduced planned and unplanned downtime
• Disaster recovery with hardware independent recovery

Virtualization solutions can have a dramatic impact on your IT infrastructure and IT operations and can deliver lower total cost of ownership of servers, higher server utilization, and increased business continuity protection. Concept offers virtualization solutions from leading virtualization technology vendors, including market leader VMware, Citrix and Microsoft with production-proven technology used by more than 120,000 customers, including 100% of the Fortune 100.

Key Benefits

• Protect your Business-Critical IT Infrastructure - simplify backup and recovery of your data and systems with virtualization. Easily recover important data within your recovery time objectives using your existing backup tools and methodologies. Benefit from a simpler data protection plan, encompassing all systems and applications and leveraging the benefits of a virtualized datacenter.
• Eliminate Planned and Unplanned Downtime - Make sure your applications have the highest level of availability with built-in service levels that are easier and more cost effective than traditional solutions. The live migration of virtual machines eliminates the need for planned downtime, allowing IT to perform maintenance on physical servers anytime, without user or service disruption.
• Build Reliable and Efficient Disaster Recovery Plans - Eliminate the cost and unpredictability of traditional disaster recovery solutions by taking advantage of the inherent flexibility of a 100% virtualized datacenter. Utilize this foundation to build highly effective disaster recovery plans and test your plan in a non-disruptive manner—eliminating the issue of failure due to hardware differences between the primary and backup datacenters.

The challenge in operating a business is to balance the cost of the required infrastructure and its safeguards with the actual capacity, availability and security for your business needs. Our team works with you to develop a risk assessment plan suited to your business, and then recommends the architecture and solution that best meets both your requirements for cost-control and system availability.

Please contact Concept for more information on our Business Continuity solutions or for technical support on an existing solution