Top 25 Companies Providing Business Continuity Solution - 2018

It is essential for a firm of any size to have in place a business continuity plan that ensures operations remain unaffected by occurrences of unpredictable events such as cyber attacks, natural disasters, or other external threats. With advancements in technology, attacks like ransomware are becoming more common and complex than before, making it necessary for organizations to add ransomware protection to their data backup systems. However, many businesses are yet to upgrade their existing legacy backup and data recovery systems. With cybersecurity threats only expected to aggravate, companies that fail to invest in the latest technologies are at risk of data breaches. Moreover, maintaining business continuity will also help reduce long-term technology costs, decrease the need for manual and time-consuming IT fixes, and detect problems at the first sign of a potential disaster.

Software-defined networking (SDN) is starting to gain more momentum from a business continuity perspective for its ability to provide an additional layer of intelligence in routing that allows direct programming of network control and abstraction of the underlying infrastructure. SDN also helps businesses achieve greater resiliency, availability, optimizes bandwidth, prevents disruptions, and reduces bottlenecks. Similarly, hybrid cloud computing systems are also at the forefront of helping maintain business continuity. Hybrid cloud gives companies data backup, fail-over of servers, and the ability to recover the data from anywhere and at any time. Disaster recovery as a service has become smarter with the growth of virtualization and cloud computing, allowing companies to recover data, individual machines, or the entire infrastructure in a matter of seconds via a virtual environment.

Today’s market is replete with numerous solution providers capable of assisting companies to prepare a comprehensive business continuity plan. This edition of CIO Applications brings you “Top 25 Business Continuity Solution Providers - 2018.” Our distinguished panel comprising CEOs, CIOs, and analysts along with the editorial board of CIO Applications has narrowed the choices to leading companies that are delivering innovative business continuity solutions.