A not-so-robust ecosystem
On Friday, the world experienced a business interruption caused by the hasty deployment of a software update. This software, Crowdstrike, is deployed on many Windows environments and its failure touched approximately 8.5 million computers.
Planes were pinned down, TV channels went dark, ATMs were frozen, a container terminal was blocked and many hospitals experienced serious delays in their patients' check-in.
Questions are still being asked about why Crowdstrike decided to unusually run this update. But the facts are here. Companies are not prepared for business interruptions. We often think that cyberattacks are the only source of service disruption. But Friday’s breakdown remembered everybody that this kind of outage can have many causes.
And the effects are devastating. For companies as well as for individuals:
- Production line shutdown
- Value chain collapse
- No more communication between employees
- Raging customers
- High impacts on reputation
- Falling share prices
What are companies' solutions?
Hence, GAFAM's omnipresence on the Cloud Market is a good thing when everything works. It allows companies to benefit from their expertise, interesting prices, and complete offers.
But when a link breaks in their value chain, everything stops. Even when equipped with smaller Cloud providers’ services.
What are the options for SMBs? Waiting for new major competitors to emerge could take forever… Another option could be praying for your company not to be impacted when it happens again…
Or you can take proactive measures and equip your company with a Continuity Cloud, a Simple, Operational and Secure solution.
With Astran Continuity Cloud, companies are now able to:
- Identify their critical processes,
- Convert them into checklists, actionable at any time
- Secure the data and contacts necessary for their execution.
Thus, all critical operations can be carried out efficiently, regardless of the state of their information systems.
So don’t wait for a new major crisis: Keep your Operations Up, Always.
Get a Continuity Cloud.
