TimeScale: Business Resilience For The Small-To-Medium Enterprise

Delivering seamless business continuity and data resilience is critical to businesses large and small—even more so today, thanks to compressed business cycles and increasing government regulatory requirements. However, traditional approaches to data protection only focus on data recovery—and accept the traditional status quo of time-to-recoveryin terms of hours or even days. As businesses move to near-real-time information cycles, and as regulations demand immediate and continuous access to business records, the traditional concept of data recovery is no longer acceptable in support of progressive, profitable business operations. Traditional data recovery approaches are especially inappropriate for small-to-medium enterprise (SME) businesses.

For Global 2000 companies, the availability of sophisticated and expensive broadband networks, redundant (and highly expensive) data centers, and standby high-availability services can help to improve recovery times using traditional data protection and recovery solutions. However, these options are not readily available to, or affordable by, SME businesses. Consequently, many SME businesses have yet to implement data protection strategies as they seek an affordable, manageable solution that meets their own specific requirements.