Redundancy and enabling business continuity
Whether an outage occurs due to a transient error or a regional failure, ensuring continuity can take different forms. For highly critical applications, data, and files, having a good business continuity plan in place will help business functions to keep carrying forward. Normally, business continuity is managed as a separate function but ultimately contributes to a larger disaster recovery plan for the organization.
A common scenario where having a business continuity plan helps is when there is an outage related to office documents or functionality. Many companies have a shared or distributed filesystem where spreadsheets and documents are often stored, and when shared documents are unavailable to users, it can impact a business’s daily work effort. While many online services, such as Google Docs and Microsoft 365, can offer a much more durable means of managing and accessing critical documents, even those services can fall victim...
