Veeam Advises Retailers in Middle East to Have Systems in Place to Prepare for Surge in Online Shopping During Christmas Season and Prevent Downtime
With more retailers starting their online sales on Christmas Eve, consumers will flock online to grab the best deals. Advanced sales has proved to be a success for retailers if they have the right processes and contingencies in place.
“For many retailers everything ties back to the data centre including the point of sale and website, so if an incident does occur then it is multiplied because of the rush associated to this buying pattern. To reduce the risk and reap the benefits of Christmas rush, retailers should leverage the data they have to determine a number of factors such as how many transactions can be made in one day to ensure the back-end infrastructure can handle the surge.” says Gregg Petersen, Regional Director, Middle East and SAARC at Veeam Software
For the Always-On retailer to work during this busy shopping period, they should consider implementing an availability solution that offers five key capabilities. These are: high-speed recovery; data loss avoidance; verified protection; leveraging backups to provide a production-like test environment; and complete visibility, which is absolutely critical to know how the data centre is operating during this busy time; as workloads like these days are not the norm.
