Scale Computing BCDR Planning Service to Minimize Cost and Downtime of Disaster

Scale Computing, Inc. announced its Business Continuity/Disaster Recovery (BCDR) Planning Service, designed to help organizations establish a regulated plan for responding to unforeseen downtime.

The service provides customers and partners with the tools, guidance, and resources to create a playbook for backup and recovery, enabling businesses to endure a disaster scenario with minimal loss.

The firm also recently announced that it is a finalist for the BCDR Project of the Year in the 2023 SDC Awards for its work with Austrian managed service provider GiGaNet and its long-time partner the Zillertaler Gletscherbahn group. Voting for the SDC Awards is open at sdcawards.com/vote until November 10, 2023.

Data breaches are one of the biggest and most costly contributors to downtime for businesses. In 2023, the average cost of a data breach globally reached an all-time high of $4.45 million, a 15.3% increase from 2020. Simultaneously, the average length of business disruption following a ransomware attack in USA reached 24 days last year, up 60% from just 2 years prior – a significant increase when downtime costs exceed $300,000/hour for over 90% of mid-sized and large enterprises. For more than half of those businesses, the hourly outage costs range from $1 million to over $5 million. Recovery from an outage adds additional expense from which many enterprises are unable to bounce back.

“Disaster can strike at any time, and every organization needs a consistently regulated playbook for how the business will respond – from action plans to recovery plans for bringing online the mission-critical servers businesses depend on,” said Jeff Ready, CEO and co-founder. “Knowing what systems need to be protected, planning for the ability to recover them, and having a full action plan for recovery should be at the forefront of every IT department’s agenda, at the beginning of any infrastructure addition. With Scale Computing Platform, the plan for DR starts before equipment is even put into production, so IT leaders have a plan in place from day one that they can enact to ensure their business stays up and running, with minimal loss, should disaster strike. Our BCDR Planning Service enables businesses to proactively classify systems based on their importance and implement a robust action plan, ensuring that our customers’ and partners’ critical systems are protected, validated, tested, and ready for recovery at any time.”

Whether a minor data loss or a business-wide shutdown, having a well-defined business continuity strategy is crucial to minimize financial impact, ensure continuous employee productivity, meet compliance and regulatory requirements, decrease liability obligations, reduce downtime, and minimize the risk of negative exposure. The company’s BCDR Planning Service includes planning, deployment, documentation creation, and DR testing, covering every aspect to keep businesses prepared and resilient. The service is offered to the firm’s Platform customers, which brings simplicity, HA, and scalability together to replace existing infrastructure for running VMs with an easy-to-manage, integrated platform that allows organizations to run applications regardless of hardware requirements.