Time to read: 1 minute, 30 seconds | Published: April 10th, 2025
IT resilience What is IT resilience?
IT resilience ensures your critical systems stay operational despite disruptions, safeguarding data and minimizing downtime. As a core part of business resilience, it helps maintain continuity, protect assets, and adapt to change. With IT resilience, your organization is always prepared to mitigate risks and recover rapidly.
How do you achieve IT resilience?
IT resilience is foundational to successfully achieving digital transformation. A robust IT resilience strategy requires three components:
- Continuous availability to ensure an "always-on" customer experience
- Workload mobility to ensure your IT assets are not tethered to on-premises environments or locations
- Multi-cloud agility to get flexibility without being locked to one provider
The speed at which your business can invoke its disaster recovery strategy or move workloads is critical for maintaining a resilient IT environment.
After a disaster occurs, your services need to be up and running in minutes without significant data loss so you can resume operations effectively. Achieving IT resilience starts with a solid backup and recovery strategy. Documenting and testing disaster recovery plans ensures you can recover quickly if downtime occurs. Along with on-premises protection, combining private and public cloud resources into a hybrid cloud can contribute to your organization’s IT resilience efficiency while also reducing costs and resources. A hybrid cloud offers many advantages:
- Set up public cloud resources as a disaster recovery site that can provide failover if a disruption on the production site occurs.
- Move workloads and data to and from the public cloud to add flexibility to your system resources.
- Extend your system’s capacity instantly when demand spikes.
What does HPE offer for IT resilience?
HPE Zerto Software delivers an industry-leading data protection and recovery solution, combining continuous availability, orchestration, and automation to accelerate multi-cloud and hybrid-cloud adoption. The solution offers simplicity, enterprise scale, and agile data protection, along with many other benefits:
- Security. Sensitive workloads stay in the private cloud with sophisticated security and governance.
- Flexibility. Computing and storage capacity expand into the public cloud when demand spikes.
- Disaster recovery. The public cloud provides replication and recovery.
- Efficiency. Intelligent workload placement spreads workloads efficiently across the various environments.
This solution enables businesses to deliver superior customer experience and accelerate digital transformation—all in one solution for IT resilience.
