Business Continuity refers to the strategies and measures taken to ensure that services and applications hosted on enterprise servers can continue to function in the event of unforeseen events, such as hardware failures, blackouts, cyber attacks, or natural disasters. In the context of servers, Business Continuity includes:
- Backup systems: duplication of data and applications on secondary servers or in the cloud to ensure availability in case of failure of primary servers.
- Hardware redundancy: having critical components, such as power supplies or hard drives, duplicated within the system to avoid service interruption.
- Failover: automatic transfer of operations to a backup server in case of failure of the main server.
- Disaster recovery plans: procedures to restore servers and data as soon as possible after an incident.
- Risk monitoring and management: proactive identification of potential problems in servers to minimize disruption of operations.
The goal is to ensure that servers continue to support business operations even during critical events, minimizing downtime.
OpenStor Hyperconvergence Systems for Business Continuity
OpenStor high-reliability servers are particularly good for ensuring Business Continuity because of a number of advanced features designed to minimize downtime and ensure business continuity. That is why they are excellent for this purpose:
- Built-in redundancy: OpenStor offers redundancy systems for both hardware components (disks, power supplies, network cards) and connections, ensuring that a single failure does not compromise operations.
- High Availability (HA): These servers support high-availability configurations that allow automatic failover.
If one server fails, another server can take its place without service interruption. - Data replication: OpenStor enables continuous replication of data across multiple servers or data centers, maintaining up-to-date copies of data in real time.
This is critical for rapid recovery in the event of data loss or corruption. - Disaster recovery: With the ability to integrate with backup and recovery solutions on the cloud or other infrastructure, OpenStor facilitates rapid recovery of data and services in the event of disasters.
- Scalability: The OpenStor platform is designed to grow easily with the needs of the business, allowing resources to be added without downtime or complications.
- Proactive monitoring and management: OpenStor offers advanced monitoring and management tools that allow potential problems to be detected and resolved before they can cause disruptions.
These features make OpenStor servers an excellent choice for companies that need a reliable and scalable Business Continuity solution, ensuring minimal downtime and high data protection.
All-in-One OpenStor Hyperconvergence
The All-in-One OpenStor hyperconvergencesystem is a hyperconvergence solution that integrates all hardware and software components of a data center into a single system. This includes the servers, storage for data archiving, switches intended for networking and virtualization.
The hyperconverged system consists of a single chassis, consisting of 4 rack units, which contains all the components necessary for the complete operation of the IT infrastructure.
This equipment is preconfigured and ready to use, making it a great solution to easily deploy and manage. OpenStor hyperconverged systems are fully scalable. In fact, they can be easily expanded to meet any growing needs of companies, easily managing workloads.
In addition, they can help reduce costs significantly by reducing the need to purchase and manage separate hardware and software-a significant benefit in terms of the budget allocated to IT resources.
