To be a successful modern big wave surfer, you’ll need to possess extreme bravery, a heart of a lion, and log a considerable amount of time surfing. However, to ride the biggest waves on the planet you’ll need high-performance equipment that’s proven and reliable. “Some waves, like massive Teahupoo, for example, are un-paddleable, and on those occasions you need equipment that works.” Any failure in your equipment can at best be a severe beating and at worse, a loss of life.
Whether you’re Laird Hamilton preparing to set the next big wave world record, or you’re a technology- reliant company looking to grow and prosper, both rely on one common factor to achieve their success – the performance of their tools.
Several real life “wipe outs” have recently occurred because data infrastructure “tools” did not perform. Microsoft Azure and Amazon Web Services, two of the world’s largest cloud providers, each experienced downtime that impacted customers worldwide. The Microsoft Azure outage lasted an 11 hours. While Amazon’s outage lasted over one hour, affecting some of Amazon’s major customers including, Vine and Instagram. For your business any failure to your network can at best be a costly $84,000 outage (avg. cost every hour of downtime) and at worse, cause you to lose your most important clients. According to Dunn & Bradstreect, 59% of Fortune 500 companies experienced 1.6 hours of IT downtime per week. An IT outage costs an organization of this size around $896,000 weekly, equivalent to $46 million per year. For a medium sized organization, the hourly costs may be lower, but the impact of lost opportunity is proportionally much larger.
Backup-as-a-Service (BaaS) is an offering from service providers such as Synoptek to design, deploy, manage, maintain, and refresh the infrastructure needed to provide a backup solution for organizations. Service providers can offer BaaS to organizations who want a flexible, scalable, and predictable backup infrastructure without the overhead of having to purchase and manage a dedicated solution.
BaaS is valuable to organizations who want to back up a wide array of devices such as servers, desktops, laptops, tablet, and smartphones. These devices can be backed up securely and efficiently at the client premises, data centers, or into the cloud.
With weekly stories in the news about downtime, it is not a matter of if, but when your business will encounter a wipeout. Be prepared for those monster waves, look into partnering with a trusted Managed IT Services provider like Synoptek.