Resilient IT systems

IT downtime costs businesses like yours money!

Many businesses are reliant on the functionality provided by their IT. Collaborative systems such as E-mail, CRM and Intranets have revolutionised the way businesses operate but many businesses don’t stop to think what they would do should those services be rendered inoperable. Disaster planning is not only about putting plans in place should the worst occur. It’s about reducing the chances of a disaster happening in the first place.

Highly Available IT

• Hard drives do fail
• Power cuts hit every business
• Servers occasionally go pop

You can’t always prevent hardware and software from failing. What you can do is design systems that are resilient to those failures.

Hard drives can be mirrored in RAID systems, power can be provided in a black out through UPS systems and whole servers can be mirrored through clusters and shared storage systems. Getting it right from the beginning can be the difference between having to put your disaster recovery plan in to practice and…  Well… business as usual!

It’s all in the design

Designing resilient systems is about looking at every risk factor that could result in downtime and either reducing the likelihood of that occurring or putting systems in place to cope should that risk become reality. This includes:

• IT Security
• Power Protection
• Resilient Hardware Design
• Redundant Software Implementations
• Resilient Network Solutions
• Effective Backup Strategies

Geek-Guru have expertise designing IT that is resilient to failure and have helped SMEs and PLCs reduce downtime in their organisations. We have vast experience with businesses just like yours so why not given us a call to see how we can keep you running when others are sat in the dark!