The pace of change in the datacentre is accelerating as South African organisations adopt technologies such as the cloud, virtualisation and mobility to become more agile and efficient. Yet business continuity and disaster recovery strategies in many organisations remain mired in legacy because risk committees at many companies and their auditors prefer to stick to the proven technology.

“There’s potential to invest better in business continuity,” says James Beaumont, CEO of iSquared. “Today, we have faster and low-cost bandwidth, fibre in the last mile, virtualisation and cloud-based services, all of which could enable companies to meet stringent continuity requirements with less complexity and at lower cost than before.”