Data Centre & DR
Infrastructure Services
Getting the job done in today’s fast-paced world, means many of your most critical operations revolve around technology. For those systems to work seamlessly, you need an infrastructure that’s primed to support changing workloads and evolving organizational needs.
At Software Technologies, we bring you the solutions and the support you need to further your goals. We can assess your environment, design the best
approach, orchestrate your solution and manage it throughout its lifecycle. With a flexible, resilient and efficient data center, you can support flexibility, resiliency and efficiency across your organization.
Compute
Compute environments can get complicated. It takes a balance of the right
hardware and software, coupled with an eye on continuous optimization, power
and cooling efficiency, and remote manageability to arrive at the right solution.
We help you turn computing into control, and leverage technology
to your advantage to:• Automate IT resource delivery
• Simplify complex IT services deployment
• Use existing capacity more efficiently
• Centralize management
Storage
Data is growing at an unprecedented rate, and it can be tempting to tack on
additional storage devices and archiving solutions just for a place to put it all.
But what you really need is a cohesive and efficient solution that’s prepared
for the data yet to come, and that prevents the problems associated with a
congested storage landscape.
We help you achieve faster, smarter storage that:
• Is simple and scalable
• Prepares you for unplanned data loss
• Enables an incremental cost structure
• Strengthens disaster recovery
Business Continuity
Businesses need to ensure high availability of their operations in the event of unplanned downtime such as a system failure, security breach, human error or natural disaster. A disaster recovery plan ensures that mission-critical systems remain available with minimal to no disruptions, and less-critical applications and data are back online within pre-determined recovery point objectives (RPO) and recovery time objectives (RTO).
A comprehensive disaster recovery plan includes many facets of your organization—your computers, network, phones, employees and customers—but perhaps most important to your operations is how quickly your IT department can restore your systems and data.
Disaster Recovery Risk Assessment
How Will Disaster Recovery Solutions Benefit My Business?
An effective disaster recovery strategy can help your business:
• Protect its reputation for reliability
• Boost productivity with 24×7 access to mission-critical applications
• Mitigate risk of financial loss by keeping revenue-producing systems up and running
• Bid for tenders that require a functioning DR strategy
Disaster Recovery
When evaluating disaster recovery solutions, it’s important to consider:
• Speed of restored operations in the event of unplanned downtime (power loss, flood, etc.)
• Financial risks, such as revenue loss per hour, or the lifetime value of lost customers
• Desired Recovery Point Objective vs Recovery Time Objective
• Failover vs Failback
Virtualisation
Virtualization has found new uses in disaster recovery planning. Optional tools allow virtual machines to transfer or fail over to dissimilar hardware, enabling the virtual machine to be online in minutes.
Failover Sites
A failover site 160 + kilometres or more from your primary location can help ensure that secondary systems are not negatively impacted by local natural disasters.
Co-Location/Hosting Centres
For some organizations, a dedicated failover site or buying redundant equipment may not be cost-effective. Third-party co-location or hosting centres are an excellent alternative.