Countless disruptions threaten the continuity of your business, which is why every organization needs a business continuity plan (BCP) in place. Successful BCPs today feature resilient cloud solutions that facilitate ongoing operations even in the face of cybercrime, natural disaster, electrical outages, or other both physical and digital disruptions. IT teams can provision cloud infrastructure to support business continuity through the virtualization of key business processes. If an on-premise or virtual machine goes down, operations automatically transition to alternative virtual resources to support essential business functions—for your customers and your teams.

In addition to threatening business continuity, disaster can eliminate valuable data, records, customer information, or other business-critical resources in a moment’s notice without the right measures in place. That’s because infrastructure resources often reside in a single, physical location; disaster that disrupts those physical resources can lead to total or near-total business loss. Resiliency cloud can protect against these losses by replicating and dispersing resources data and information to secure environments, ensuing data availability under any circumstances. Companies can quickly scale up or scale down their business resources without disrupting their capacity for disaster recovery thanks to the agility of the cloud as well.

On-premise infrastructure is costly in terms of its maintenance and updates alone; scaling on-premise infrastructure storage, throughput, or security alongside business growth can be cost-prohibitive. Companies who virtualize the work of physical machines in a resilient cloud environment can avoid these complications. Specifically, the cloud can dramatically reduce costs associated with maintenance and updates as its infrastructure resides in a secure virtual environment. Cloud providers manage these responsibilities and fold those costs into your and other companies’ service agreements, reducing direct costs to you. Providers can easily scale up or down resources like storage, throughput, and security quickly, and at much lower cost as well.

Cybercriminal activity is constantly evolving, where bad actors work constantly to exploit new vulnerabilities in business infrastructure. Cybercrime affects companies of all types and sizes as attackers become more opportunistic. But it’s difficult for IT teams to stay up to date on the latest threats, let alone maintain the latest infrastructure protections. Resilient cloud is purpose-built to keep security up to date, where providers make it their business to offer these benefits to customers. Since virtual machines depend far less on physical infrastructure and reside in a cloud environment, they are easy to update and protect as well. Companies leveraging that infrastructure enjoy automated security updates with minimal work on their part as a result.

Scaling up IT resources is difficult with on-premise solutions. As your company grows, your IT capabilities must grow alongside it in a timely and purposeful way. On-premise can be costly when resources go underutilized because you can’t scale down when you need to as well. Resiliency cloud makes it easy to scale as you increase workloads, facilitate faster throughput, broaden data storage, or launch new, robust business applications. When you no longer need those resources, you can easily scale down rather than continue to pay for costly resources you no longer need.

IT infrastructure today must support a wide variety of devices and applications, with the capacity to add new ones without compatibility issues getting in the way. This is often difficult with legacy infrastructure that may not have been designed with the capabilities you need today when first put into place. Meanwhile, companies who employ resilient cloud infrastructure can easily adapt to new IT requirements as they arise. They can work with their providers to adjust their cloud resources based on the unique requirements of the day, without costly investment in new physical infrastructure.

Companies must be prepared to adapt their IT capacities at a moment’s notice—whether it’s to seize upon a fleeting market opportunity or to accommodate sudden increases in customer demands. But adjusting IT resources quickly isn’t possible with physical on-premise infrastructure alone. Companies who use resiliency cloud for their network infrastructure can safely scale resources up or down as their business needs change. Companies can do this quickly without disruptions to security or continuity as well.

Companies who invest in resiliency cloud: report substantial ROI as a direct result of their investments. That’s due to more than just greater operational efficiencies and capabilities. Resiliency cloud boosts financial benefits from faster times to market on new products and services, easier adoption of leading software solutions, greater capacity for innovation, and greater predictability.