Power outages caught many business owners by surprise. Not everyone was able to overcome the challenges of operating during the challenging blackouts and continue operations in the harsh conditions of the power outage.
In such moments, it's often not the technology that suffers, but the processes: accounting can't function, managers lose access to data, and work stops completely.
We've seen this many times—and it's why our clients keep critical services off-site.
What can you do when there is no light and you need to work?
The obvious first step is generators and a power bank. But maintaining local servers in such conditions often proves difficult and expensive.
In practice, migrating critical services to the cloud allows a business to become less dependent on its office and local infrastructure.
Remote servers in European data centers solve several problems at once: stability, availability, and data security.
There are real-life cases where migrating 1C servers and file storage to the cloud allowed for a reduction in IT infrastructure costs while maintaining company operations even during a power outage lasting several days.
If you've been thinking about how to make your business less dependent on electricity and location, you're already on the right track.
Everything else is a question of architecture and approach.