A new cloud brings brighter days to business

CITIC Telecom CPC’s cloud strategy is bringing a brighter future to businesses of all scales, with the company’s revolutionary answer to solve a whole range of challenges from the need for robust disaster recovery, to the daily drudgery of enterprise data backup.

Data Explosion demands New Backup Methods

While requirements for business continuity are nothing new (after all, they existed even long before computers were invented), the birth of digital information sparked a mega-trend that continues to this day, with business data growing at an ever-increasing rate, year after year. Many f actors drive this data explosion, including more points of presence and larger markets in today’s global economy, longer and even non-stop business hours, more frequent communications both inside and outside of the enterprise, richer media formats including high resolution documents and videos, and of course the wide variety of business applications that generate their own multitude of format and data files. All these bits of information, being created literally by the second, all year long, are for the most part mission-critical to the modern organization, and it has become imperative for companies to adopt contingency plans to not only back up the information, but be able to practically access and use the backup at a moment’s notice. The data tapes of yesterday, and even well-designed backup schedules and methodology that were innovative for their time, are no longer relevant in the real-time environment of today.

High Costs of Inadequate Backups

This "Big Data" revolution threatens to engulf modern companies, especially those with limited resources, in a tsunami of complexity, cost, and simply sheer volume. But the option to simply disregard the need for backup and disaster recovery, is not an option at all, given a multitude of business threats, and of course the need to be compliant with new regulations and industry standards. (As an example, the United Kingdom now imposes hefty penalties for companies that do not have proper backups, as in the case of a financial services firm that was fined some quarter-million US dollars for misplacing backup tapes). Financial damage is just one aspect of inadequate backup. Loss of confidential (and even competitive) information can also be incurred, and directly undermine the viability of the company in question.

It is therefore ironic that the more a company feels it cannot afford a proper Big Data contingency plan, the more it actually cannot afford to be without a plan. This is a daunting challenge even for multinational corporations with deep resources, not to mention medium and even smaller scale enterprises. Worse, companies that attempt backup procedures in a half-hearted manner (lacking adequate policies, schedules, disciplined execution, and with limited hardware, software, and staffing) are putting themselves at even greater risk, with the false confidence that contingencies are in place, when in reality they are not dependable for business continuity or even for regulatory compliance (as in the case of misplaced data tapes by the UK firm).

Dawn of a New Solution

What is needed is a turnkey solution to solve this quagmire for businesses of any scale, but particularly for the smaller scale enterprises with resource constraints. Although there have been interesting solutions in the past to alleviate this "backup burden" for companies, the promise of seamless convenience and security had to wait until the maturation of cloud technologies. And that day has finally arrived.

CITIC Telecom CPC is offering a comprehensive range of cloud computing solutions, along with an extremely convenient cloud-based backup and disaster recovery solution that delivers ease of operation without compromising on security or fault tolerance. Instead of physically moving backup media offsite for redundant protection, companies simply automate their backup procedures and the mission critical data is transported offsite into cloud storage at CITIC Telecom CPC’s many world-class cloud platform and data centers, geographically distributed across Asia Pacific. This solution also provides excellent control for end-users, enabling them to configure highly granular backup policies which are application-aware. There is not even a storage limit, and backup solutions are priced fairly on a usage basis to fit almost any budget and requirement. By removing the headache of such a crucial task from the overhead of an enterprise, CITIC Telecom CPC is empowering companies to focus on their core competencies, and outsource the expertise to a true professional – after all, the company has decades of experience pioneering innovative networking and security solutions for the Asia Pacific market, and owns and operates a carrier-grade infrastructure spanning Asia and beyond.

In today’s dynamic global economy, operating a business can be stormy at times, with a multitude of risks that can compromise operations, and complex regulations to follow. CITIC Telecom CPC is helping to bring fairer weather to this environment, with its user-friendly enterprise-grade backup solution suite, and deliver a brighter outlook to the forecast.