Trillions of dollars’ worth of IT spend seemingly crippled by a global IT outage.\u00a0 What a wakeup call. The adage, \u201cgoing back to the drawing board\u201d couldn\u2019t be more resounding now.<\/p>\n
While businesses and institutions grapple with fixes to ensure these situations never happen again, here are 3 ways to outage-proof your IT infrastructure.<\/p>\n
Hybrid IT is still an excellent deployment model.<\/strong> Whether you choose to go multi cloud, cloud + colocation, cloud + colocation + on premise or any variant, the saying \u201cdon\u2019t put your eggs in one basket\u201d illustrates just how businesses must look at their infrastructure.\u00a0 No matter how many 9\u2019s there are in their promised reliability, it always pays to NOT rely on a single source.\u00a0 After all, if one opts for reliability of multiple IT infrastructure, the math increases.<\/p>\n Back up must also be hybrid & universal.<\/strong> Many used to associate back up as a duplicate of one\u2019s data, infrastructure, systems or location.\u00a0 But nowadays, in the age of growing interoperability across multiple platforms in the software level, businesses must now look at deploying their business services using multiple application types\/modes\/providers.\u00a0 While this may be an interoperability nightmare, given the recent events in IT, it may now be a worthwhile cause to implement.\u00a0 Better go through the headache now than later.<\/p>\n Run downtime simulations to ascertain true RTO<\/strong>.\u00a0 Recovery Time Objective (RTO) is a measure on how short (or long) it would take for businesses to get up from outages.\u00a0 Have you experienced the irony of getting a UPS and only knowing that it is broken when it is supposed to kick in (but it somehow does not)?\u00a0 Now is the time to simulate an actual downtime and ascertain whether the RTO is aligned with your business expectations; business or mission critical applications cannot afford lengthy downtimes.\u00a0 Never rely on \u201cstated\u201d or \u201clab tested\u201d RTO, the real-world RTO considers not just the application & hardware, but also the connectivity, environmentals, manpower and other connected services.<\/p>\n The lesson we all learned from recent unforeseen events is this: don\u2019t just put your eggs in one basket, get another basket or two, and put some more eggs in the fridge for good measure.<\/strong> While IT outages are no laughing matter, now is the time to rethink your IT posture.<\/p>\n Digital Halo is the Philippines\u2019 newest data center facility that houses colocation facilities as well as partner-driven solutions that can deliver hybrid cloud products.\u00a0 Its flagship MNL1 facility is the only data center in the east of Luzon, and is home for hyperscalers, enterprise and public sector clients as well as businesses who demand facilities that are not too near nor too far from the CBDs.\u00a0 For more information, \u00a0email manila@digitalhalo.net<\/a> or visit digitalhalo.net<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Trillions of dollars’ worth of IT spend seemingly crippled by a global IT outage.\u00a0 What a wakeup call. 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