What have we learned from the recent
COVID-19 pandemic? We’ve learned the most impactful way to wash our hands and
how often we touch our faces, but are we prepared for future unexpected
disasters? If you aren’t learning from the global shut-down, you WILL be caught
unaware next time – and there are no more excuses for being unprepared.
One company who learned from the SARS
crisis was Chinese tech giant, Alibaba. A recent article by Porter
Erisman, former VP of Alibaba Group said, “While it would have been easy to be paralyzed
by fear and panic, instead, Alibaba not only survived, but thrived during the
SARS crisis. Our team emerged stronger and more united than ever. Our revenues
accelerated. And we launched a new business - Taobao - which went on to become
the most valuable business unit of Alibaba's vast $US400 billion+ e-commerce
empire.”
COVID-19 forced
billions of businesses shut their doors permanently. The USA based Federal
Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) reported that “roughly 40% to 60% of small
business never reopen their doors following a disaster.” If you can, take a
walk today (practicing social distancing of course), and see how many local
businesses are shuttered – perhaps forever. If you are one of the lucky ones,
still holding on, instead of focusing on what you should have done – let’s
focus on what you can do now to use IT to not only save your business in the
wake of disaster, but to thrive.
IT spending is
projected to decline by 2.7% according to IDC experts. It’s time to think about where you will get
the most for your money.
Hyper-Converged Infrastructure
Scalability
Regardless of if you want to scale up or scale back – the
freedom products like hyper-converged infrastructure (HCI) gives you is
invaluable in the event of a disaster of any proportion. By eliminating the
need to upgrade or downgrade hardware, you eliminate high TCO and ensure that
you are using and paying for only what you need. By
building IT infrastructure with a standardized HCI vendor you realize visible,
centralized operation and management via a unified WEB platform, providing an
ultra-simplified, on-demand IT framework that evolves with your business.
HCI implementation can eliminate IT infrastructure cost, complexity and the
need for specialized personnel in remote offices, providing them with
effortless operations and flexible scalability.
Business
Continuity & Disaster Recovery
If you weren’t sure if you had a disaster recovery plan in place, you are certainly sure now.
Maintaining the
same level of business continuity through any disaster will certainly
place you a head above the competition. While others apologize for being unable
to deliver the same consistent service, you can offer new services, expand your
client base and grow your business
with HCI. HCI provides a variety of data
protection features to ensure data integrity. Snapshot, backup and continuous
data protection (CDP) mean data can be protected effortlessly at different
levels according to different application requirements. In addition, a
simplified disaster recovery solution means total business continuity in all
situations.
Why Sangfor?
Sangfor Technologies is an APAC-based, global leading vendor of IT infrastructure solutions specializing in Network Security and Cloud Computing. Visit us at www.sangfor.com to learn more about Sangfor’s cloud computing options, and let Sangfor make your IT simpler, more secure and more valuable.