Business Continuity

Computacenter's Business Continuity Services enable organisations to minimise risk by safeguarding IT and data availability.

Business Challenge

With increasing reliance on IT for core business and customer-facing processes, any event resulting in systems downtime can have a considerable impact on an organisation’s revenue and reputation.

To mitigate this risk, organisations need to optimise their business continuity strategy and ensure an effective balance between IT recovery times and costs.

As well as maximising uptime, organisations need to ensure they meet regulatory and internal governance requirements around data protection and risk management – both of which can be impacted by poor business continuity.

With the volume of data and devices growing and availability targets becoming more stringent, implementing a cost-effective business continuity strategy requires access to skilled resources, best practice processes and proven technologies.

Computacenter Solution

References

In such a demanding and crowded industry, it is essential that Aviva stands out. By increasing the efficiency of our internal operations and IT infrastructure, we are able to provide customers with a reliable and high quality service.

AvivaSteve Houghton Infrastructure Architect
Aviva

Computacenter has brought real innovation to our storage strategy and has helped us maximise our investment in new technology.

Lancashire ConstabularyKep Simcox
ICT Operations Manager
Lancashire Constabulary

On our customers' agenda

Cost Reduction Risk Avoidance

Computacenter offers a wide range of services and solutions that help ensure your organisation’s data and systems remain resilient and recoverable:

Consultation services: We will assess the risks associated with your existing backup, archiving and recovery environments and advise how to improve your business continuity. We understand the implications of different compliance and regulatory demands, and can help you meet these through tailored solutions and policies.

Transformation services: From data replication to server virtualisation, Computacenter can help design, build and manage a full business continuity architecture that meets your organisation’s budget and its recovery objectives.

Managed services: To simplify business continuity planning and provisioning, Computacenter and its partners provide organisations with access to a range of disaster recovery facilities and skilled resources as part of its managed services.

Key Benefit

By safeguarding IT availability and simplifying disaster recovery, Computacenter’s Business Continuity services will help your organisation achieve:

Cost reduction: With a robust business continuity strategy in place, organisations can minimise IT downtime and its financial impact. Computacenter will help keep the operational expense associated with disaster recovery provisioning to a minimum by identifying the most appropriate level of resilience for your business.

Risk avoidance: The ability to effectively recover from an IT failure or disaster reduces the risk of noncompliance, data loss and business disruption. Computacenter will help implement business continuity processes and technologies that match your organisation’s risk profile and internal governance requirements.

Why Computacenter?

Computacenter will make your business sharper by removing cost, complexity and barriers to change. We have an open, pragmatic approach, and always provide independent advice, working with IT departments, not around them.

Computacenter serves its clients from offices and facilities across the UK, Germany, France, the Benelux countries and Spain. We also have a support centre in South Africa and a network of global partners.

With 25 years of practical IT ‘know how’, we will change the way you think about technology. Computacenter’s services and solutions are based on the same strong values:

Repeatable best practice: Computacenter’s Shared Services Factory captures the key elements of our most successful projects, which helps to reduce the complexity and cost of future customer implementations.

Breadth and scale: We have extensive expertise of delivering network, data centre and desktop transformation projects that help organisations optimise their people, processes and technologies. We have the largest independent engineering force in the UK, and our staff hold more than 200 vendor and industry accreditations, including SUN, IBM, HP, Microsoft, Oracle, EMC, VERITAS, VMware, Symantec, Cisco and Citrix certifications.

Innovation: Our unique multi-vendor Solutions Centre enables customers to prototype, test and prove new technology investments at no risk to production systems.