Certain industries and sectors have been faced with more complex business continuity and disaster recovery demands than others, most notably those that have a wider diversity and more intense reliance upon various technologies. Health care and manufacturing might be the best examples of this given the range of compliance requirements, advanced technologies and rapidly moving market demands contained in each.
Small businesses from virtually any industry can learn how to better prepare their operations for significant challenges by looking into the mistakes and successes of others, and using the ones with the most complex obstacles as subjects in this research is a good move. Let’s take a look at how manufacturers are approaching disaster recovery, and how these practices can be applied to other types of companies’ programs and strategies.
Simplifying, streamlining
Manufacturing.net recently explained some of the core assets organizations in this sector are beginning to leverage in efforts to achieve more efficient, consistent and effective disaster recovery performances. According to the news provider, because this particular industry is so heavily rooted in automation, especially within systems management, maintenance and access, it is a bit more prone to outages.
Manufacturers are leveraging more advanced technology to protect against downtime.
However, the source pointed out that these firms are increasingly reliant upon more advanced backend infrastructure, such as modernized networks and cloud-based solutions, as well as virtual machines. As is the case in virtually every industry, outages and downtime can be devastating even when they do not last for longer than a few hours, as disrupted operations are difficult to reconcile in stride.
For this reason and many more, Manufacturing.net affirmed that making the switch away from traditional technology and toward hybrid IT that combines various types of assets for more resilience in the face of disaster-related situations appears to be the strongest path forward. Finally, the source argued that manufacturers ought to be using the same technologies for core operations rather than solely disaster recovery, as this can help to boost returns on investments.
Consistent advantages
Even if a small business is operating in retail and does not have as much of a reliance on technology and automation, downtime can still negatively impact brand images and the bottom line over time. As such, applying these concepts of improving the elasticity and resilience of IT and general operations with more modernized, cloud-based and hybrid frameworks can be advantageous for all firms.