The hurricane events of the last two years, combined with the normally unpredictable Alabama weather has many business thinking about how to ensure that they can continue to function when the unforeseen happens. From tools to protect your business before the event, to rental programs for when the worst happens, InLine can help.
While things like hurricanes and tornados produce riveting images that make us all think about what we would do in that situation, many more businesses have to deal with the challenges of more mundane events like fire, theft, flood, or catastrophic equipment failure every day. These everyday small disasters don't make the news, but they can be every bit as devastating for the individual or business that experiences them. Whenever accidents, disasters and natural events interrupt business activities, one thing is certain---businesses lose money. How much money often depends on how well prepared companies are for dealing with business interruptions, and how quickly they can get their infrastructure back up and running.
The research statistics are just too clear-cut to refute. National Fire Association (US) figures show that 40% of organizations that suffer a major disaster go out of business within a year. A study by Datapro Research maintains that 43% never re-open and a further 29% go under within two years. A survey of insurance companies supports the findings that a company without a disaster recovery plan for its computer systems has a less than 10% chance of surviving a major disaster. The reality is that in today's information driven world, the loss of that information and the avenues of communication that come with it, or the inability to access these is often too much of a burden to overcome for an organization already weakened by the event itself.
Good planning, solid data protection strategies, and the help of a trusted partner can help overcome these hurdles and help a business survive this challenge. InLine is a partner that specializes in this kind of planning and services. Through our unique mix of products, services, and facilities, we are able to protect our clients and maximize your chances of overcoming the odds, rather than becoming a statistic.
Before the event happens InLine can help you with services like InVault, our over the wire backup service for your most critical data to our secure data center. By loading a simple client onto your servers or critical workstations, we can automatically upload your mission critical data every night, or even more often, off-site where it can be available in the case of an event that renders your primary backup unavailable. InLine can provide your data on DVD-ROM or you can download it from anywhere you can get Internet Access. Speaking of this, as an ISP and a CLEC, InLine's business class Internet customers are able to leverage our unique capabilities to rapidly obtain connectivity in an alternate site in mere days in the event of the loss of their primary facility. During Hurricane Katrina we even provided temporary office space, complete with telephones, computers, communications, and Internet for one of our clients whose office on the gulf coast was destroyed.
InLine's data center's 3rd generation vault design, combined with multiple SONET fiber ring connectivity and natural gas generator make it the perfect facility for providing cost effective hot site capabilities for the business that needs to ensure transparent, rapid, and seamless failover in the event of a disaster. By leveraging today's cutting edge technologies like the InStor iSCSI SAN Appliance, we can replicate your critical data to a mirror server in our data center as it changes on a moment by moment basis. In the case of a failure, your users can simply login through a web browser from wherever they are and get back to work.
Finally, we realize that not all of our customers are able to plan ahead, so when the unforeseen happens, you can still turn to InLine for help after the event. With a rental program offering everything from battery backups to entire servers and workstations, InLine can help provide the resources you need to get back on your feet. Our InCare managed services clients receive a 50% discount off all rental charges in the event they have to use these services.
If your organization is currently recovering from one of this past season's many storms, or if you'd like to make sure your business is prepared for the next severe weather event or any other potential emergency, please contact your InLine account representative for more information about our Disaster Recovery Products and Services or click here.