To keep your business operating even if a crisis strikes, you need a comprehensive, end-to-end continuity plan. Whether you’re hit by a power failure, a pandemic, a cyber attack – any unplanned interruption that disrupts communications or keeps employees from reaching the workplace – you need a step by-step strategy to protect your people, your operations, your data and your reputation.

(Note: Some information about you and your organization will be needed for the assessment)

Allstream’s Business Continuity services – backed by our secure, nationwide IP infrastructure – ensure that your network is ready to support whatever business continuity plan you choose, helping you recover quickly from any kind of crisis. Our experts also ensure that your continuity and disaster recovery protocols meet the increasingly strict demands of regulatory compliance – and, even more important, the expectations of your customers and business partners.

For Allstream, the key to business continuity is network continuity. Whatever the size of your organization, you need to minimize the costly risk of downtime by integrating network capabilities to secure, back up, recover or replicate your vital communications services, IT systems and data – all the building blocks that keep your business up and running. And when an unplanned outage does interrupt your network, you need to restore communications within minutes.

From Cloud-Based Recovery services that provide near-instant server replication to full-service physical work environments, Allstream ensures that your people can always stay connected with each other and with customers and suppliers – no matter what happens.

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Minimize network disruptions and downtime.
Any business continuity plan is only as good as the networking and IT infrastructure that supports it.

• Allstream’s experts work with your IT team to ensure your network is equipped with the secure, scalable capabilities and applications that will protect your business from service disruptions and enable rapid recovery times.
• Our self-healing national IP network is supported by industry-leading security and backup features. Should a disruption or disaster strike your organization, we can restore your business-critical applications and data within minutes.

Protect your reputation and your bottom line.
By implementing an end-to-end business continuity and disaster recover plan, you protect your business from:

• loss or leakage of critical data
• lost work hours and business opportunities during and after the crisis
• damaged brand reputation and/or lost sales revenues
• dissatisfied customers, stockholders and business partners
• supply chain disruptions that impact your vendors, distributors and customers
• fines and penalties from regulatory agencies, as well as potential litigation.

Simplify Business Continuity.
Effective business continuity and disaster recovery strategies can be difficult to maintain and execute – especially if your IT resources are already stretched to the limits. Allstream’s experts can help you plan and implement a strategy that fits your unique organizational needs.

We can also offer you a full suite of Managed Services to:

• monitor and report on the health of your network and applications
• test your continuity and recovery plans to ensure they remain effective and ready
• ensure you are compliant with industry and regulatory standards.

Lower your IT costs and business losses.
Allstream’s Business Continuity services – backed by our secure, high-performance network – minimize the potential impact of downtime and help reduce both upfront and ongoing IT infrastructure costs.

• Ensure faster, more efficient recovery times – and fewer lost work hours.
• Protect your bottom line by keeping people connected, productive and delivering quality service – which in turn strengthens customer loyalty and generates higher sales and revenues.
• Reduce your total cost of IT ownership, including hardware and software purchases, with cloud-based replication of servers and applications.
• Save money by reducing or even eliminating the need to maintain off-site server facilities.
• Minimize the networking headaches for your IT team, who can focus on restoring full capacity across the enterprise.
• Enhance your business reputation and credibility – assets that can be leveraged in marketing and publicity campaigns.

Increase your network ROI.
Allstream’s Business Continuity services enhance your existing communications investments and allow you to take advantage of powerful networking and storage capabilities without incurring substantial costs. Our unique security features – embedded at every connection point of our national IP network – protect your IT infrastructure from disruption, saving you costly repairs and maintenance fees.