Businesses across the globe are placing higher emphasis on their business continuity and disaster recovery programmes, leading to increasing demand for high density hosting and virtualised environments. To support this growth, Telstra International has invested in a further expansion of its global data centre network.
Disaster recovery is a growing business – and with good reason. Recent research* amongst IT decision makers across the globe suggests that as many as 93% of organisations have had to execute on their disaster recovery plans in the past year. In the case of complete outages, this meant an average downtime of four hours with average costs of $300,000 to get back up and running (rising to more than $600,000 in sectors such as finance). With this in mind, it is easy to see why disaster recovery is the new priority for CTOs.
However, managing a comprehensive disaster recovery plan in house is costly, time consuming and, most importantly, can even impact on customers and revenue. The research further suggests that, businesses which had a plan implemented saw as many as one in four disaster recovery simulations fail during testing, leading to considerable disruption and potential loss of revenue.
Working alongside a trusted partner to implement and manage a disaster recovery plan – either in part or in its entirety – has become the natural choice of businesses across the world and the driver behind considerable growth in the demand for managed hosting.
This demand has directly led to Telstra International’s investment in a new global data centre - a key example of our ongoing investment in global hosting capabilities.
The new multi-million pound facility is in Woking in the UK and will complement Telstra’s existing capabilities in Singapore, Hong Kong, Sydney, Auckland, and Wellington. This data centre will provide an additional 10,000 sq ft of hosting space for customers worldwide, with further expansion in Asia planned for the near future. The facility will offer a wide range of managed hosting and disaster recovery services, from managed storage to smart remote hands. It has also been designed to support evolving infrastructure requirements, as customers upgrade and adapt their IT systems to make use of technologies such as virtualisation and Software as a Service (SaaS).
Telstra International’s global data centres have connectivity to the Telstra Global Next IP™ network. This enables multinational companies to benefit from a complete solution with access to Telstra network and hosting solutions across the globe.
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*Symantec 2009 Disaster Recovery Research. For more information visit www.symantec.com