NTI delivers business continuity to a world where adjusting to new norms means trying time for business to continue
Our attention of late has been directed at major vendor
events. Just this week there were major events held by HPE and Apple and last
week it was Cisco Live. There have been regional events for the NonStop
community as well. What has differentiated these events from anything
experienced in the past is that they were virtual events – programs developed
by vendors that allowed us to sit at our desks to watch the events unfold.
Different? Of course; and for some sessions, a little
difficult to take! However, their success cannot diminish the fact that in
today’s new normal world, there are few alternatives to such approaches. At HPE
Discover 2020 there were even hands-on developer labs (you needed to sign up
for these in advance) where HPE committed considerable compute resources and
where the responses coming from those who participated were very positive.
It is against this backdrop that one phrase kept coming
up – Business Continuity. For most attendees it took a while to sink in that
this wasn’t so much a reference to traditional models supporting business
continuity in the sense of recoverability but rather, the more simple and
indeed fundamental, issue of ensuing a business can continue even as a global
pandemic persists. No surprises here but with staff working remotely and
customers and partners somewhat out of sight, having on hand the tools
necessary to stay in business were proving critical.
HPE stressed that among many messages to its community,
it couldn’t be stressed enough that most important of all for HPE was
“advancing the way people live and work.” In this context, HPE was providing
alternatives to traditional models for consuming technology – new products, new
software and even new ways to finance. What hasn’t changed though is the
original meaning of business continuity whereby our most critical of mission
critical solutions simply have to keep on running as they provide the
foundation for all other actions a business may consider to best accommodate a
changed world.
For NTI, this image resonates with our product team as our
premier product offering, DRNet®,
sits lightly on the NonStop operating system. “For as long as we have been
delivering DRNet® for the purpose of
ensuring business continuity at times of crises,” said Tim Dunne, NTI’s Senior
Vice President Worldwide Sales, “our focus has been very much on ensuring
resources assigned to processing transactions aren’t compromised in any way
when running DRNet®.”
This was the theme for the article published in the
June 2020 issue of NonStop Insider, NTI
addressing the needs to deploy a “spread offense” to better cover new business
opportunities. Sporting images and
clichés aside, it was left to Dunne to note that even today, with all that is
occurring around us, “It’s important to all of us here at NTI to make sure our
products don’t ‘force a fumble’ particularly at a time when reverting to a backup
system, integral to an IT organizations business continuity plan, is needed to
step in to take up the load.”
It is difficult in these times but it is still
important to recognize that outages, brownout spikes, compromised bandwidth and
difficulties reaching key personnel continue and that our business continuity
plans are very much connected to any disaster recovery plans already in place.
Indeed, the lines are becoming blurred as for many businesses, ability to
continue mirrors similar angst as to that in evidence when a data center is
lost. For NTI this too was covered in the June article in NonStop Insider:
“NonStop is fault tolerant. NonStop
systems anchoring a business continuity plan provide the best option when
surrounded by crisis. NTI delivers the solutions, tools and utilities that ease
the potential pain from the unknown and together, as they spread the loads to
better support business offensive programs supporting new business
opportunities IT can outlast the competition, no matter the crisis.
“Sporting terms may not always work in
all markets but the concept of spread isn’t new to the NonStop community. And
with the NTI product set as it exists today, the spread addresses many critical
aspects surrounding data - DRNet®
remains the go-to choice for IT operations everywhere.”
To read this article
published in the June 2020 issue of NonStop Insider, simply click on the
hyperlink above or cut and paste this link into you browser –
Should you have any
questions on the latest NTI product offerings in support of business continuity,
just email us or call any member of our sales team directly.
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