Planning for Business Continuity
Avoiding network outrage that costs companies millions

Think disaster recovery and business continuity and are just for billion-dollar enterprises? No so!

When a small business loses its lnternet connection or its network for a few hours, it suffers mightily. Big and small businesses alike, there are very real costs associated with a network outage - both easily quantifiable and less tangible but very real.

Candy maker Hershey lnc suffered a web outage that cost them an estimated US$700 million lost in sales when customers unable to place orders online fled in droves to Mars, Nestle and other vendors. Amazon.com's retails operation lost an estimated of US$31,000 per minute or USS8.65 million in 2008 during a virtually complete shutdown for more than 4 hours.

While disaster recovery and business continuity are closely related, they are far from interchangeable. According to Nashvílle Business Journal, disaster recovery is about getting your business back up after a problem takes it down. Business continuity planning, on the other hand, is the pre-emptive practice of ensuring that terrible events cause as little disruption as possible.

Join SolarWinds at this session to learn how you can prepare your networks to meet the most challenging of network environments and plan for YOUR business continuity.
 

Harold Klaje has recently joined SolarWinds in Singapore as the Sales Director for Asia Pacific. In his current role, Harold is responsible for accelerating revenue and profit growth for SolarWinds’s business across Asia Pacific. Other charters include channel / distribution / system integration and partner growth across Asia Pacific with a focus on solving customer problems.

Prior to joining SolarWinds, Harold spent three years as Head of Inside Sales and Mid Market Business at Datacraft Asia, establishing sales strategy across Asia Pacific and driving execution of the strategy. During this period he started up the inside sales team across Asia Pacific for Datacraft as well as spearheaded the Mid Market sales initiative across the region.

Early in 2003, Harold joined Dun and Bradstreet as Sales Manager under the Business Marketing Services Division. During this time he was responsible for leading its sales team and business development

Harold posses a degree in Business Administration, Management of Technology and Innovation from Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam.