Cloud services provider Fastly experienced an outage in June that knocked down websites such as Reddit, Twitch, Hulu, The New York Times, and more for nearly an hour. Unfortunately, incidents like this are far too common.

IT outages cost businesses $5,600 per minute – equating to over $300,000 per hour – according to Gartner and can result in long-lasting damage to their brand’s reputation. In this episode of IT Availability Now, Edwina Murphy, Lead Cloud Specialist for the EMEA Region at Sungard AS, discusses how to keep your organization from suffering the same fate. Listen to the full episode to learn:

●        Critical steps businesses must take to prevent IT outages

●        Ways to make certain your employees are prepared for disruption

●        How to ensure you can successfully recover in your disaster recovery location if production and IT systems fail

Brian Fawcett is a Senior Manager of Global Sales Engagement at Sungard AS. With over 15 years of experience in a range of industries, he specializes in forming enterprise-wide global talent and learning development programs. Brian has enriched corporate learning culture by matching organizational vision and core values to curricula, leading to application and impact.

Ed Murphy is the EMEA cloud specialist team lead, where she supports customers through complex challenges and helps them adopt creative, robust, efficient, secure and resilient cloud solutions to transform business. Ed holds over a decade of experience in working with private, public and hybrid cloud solutions and managed services.

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