Building Resilience in the Next Generation of Business Applications

Can you afford a daily loss of $100 million dollars due to critical application failure? Earlier this year, over a short 5 days, a major airline suffered $500M in business costs associated to application outages from a faulty vendor update. Overseeing the operations of any size organization is a daunting task, and one that carries many burdens. Ensuring your organizations applications remain available anytime, anywhere shouldn’t add to the burdens keeping you up at night.

The next generation of business has fully embraced technology to streamline daily operations, create competitive advantages, and scale for global operations. At the heart of this digital transformation beats the application, which powers everything from customer interactions to critical internal processes. In this real-time environment, downtime is not an option, and at the enterprise scale, downtime costs are even more significant.

High Availability Focuses on Uptime but Not Full Resilience

High availability (HA) has been a gold standard for ensuring critical applications remain accessible during minor disruptions or failures. However, given complex architectures, global footprints, and evolving continuity risks, high availability alone cannot guarantee always-on services. Enterprises must reimagine application continuity to enable real-time resilience no matter the outage, cyber-attack, or disruption that threaten operations.

Why does application resiliency matter?

When you consider the criticality of your applications – your business depends on them. Be it your billing platform, reservation system, or patient portal, these applications are the lifeline that sustain your organization. They are responsible for managing your customer’s transactions, documenting and recording their information and processing payments. These applications have little to no tolerance for downtime or failure. You must then ask yourself, how much disruption can your business endure?

As the need for resiliency has never been more critical, the various types of business disruptions you must prepare for is also expanding. Some of these disruptions include infrastructure outages, natural disasters, and cyber-attacks. While you can plan certain infrastructure disruptions, these are all largely unplanned events that can bring any ill-prepared organization to their knees. Application resiliency assures your business can withstand any of the above disruptions with little to no downtime while ensuring rapid recovery when necessary. Application resiliency matters because it keeps your business operational.

What is InfoScale?

InfoScale offers the ultimate risk mitigation against business outages. InfoScale will protect against infrastructure failures, monitor your applications, notify you of anomalies, and automatically recover as necessary. Whether it is housed on premise or in the cloud, InfoScale will keep your business up and running, always. InfoScale allows you to streamline your application resiliency. When we operate with decentralized ownership, the silos create a fractured strategy that adds chaos in the event of a disaster.

Application resiliency with InfoScale offers a multi-platform and multi-cloud solution, truly giving meaning to “any app, anywhere.” Being software defined allows this tool to be infrastructure agnostic and platform independent. It ensures the applications in your organization are operating as expected. Whether you need it in the cloud, on premise, or with Kubernetes, InfoScale is ready for it all.

What’s next for InfoScale?

While InfoScale history is long, the future remains bright and open. We continue to advance this technology as customer needs and environments grow and change. Business consistency and application availability should be at the forefront of your organization’s operation planning and with InfoScale in your toolbox, rest assured you have the ultimate risk mitigation tool against business outages.

Learn more about Arctera InfoScale today.