The March 11 th earthquake in Japan has been the fifth largest earthquake in history. After the event thousands of Japanese citizens flocked to internet, hoping to find lost relatives through the web, even posting online ads to locate them.
According to news, the website services in the United Arab Emirates was interrupted on the 13 th. allegedly due to the strong earthquake at Thousands island. In addition several websites in Japan shut down too, other websites run very slowly, meanwhile the speed of visiting Japanese websites by Chinese users has decreased too. In 48 hours after the richter 9 scale earthquake, the Japanese information and telecommunication promotion association website also halted.
On November 10th, 2:58 time the YingJiang area in Yunnan province was hit with 5.8 scale earthquake, these events have raised the awareness of public citizens to the power of using internet as a tool for "reaching out to people", it also makes us think about: what is left for us to do if our internet services are not there? How should CDN service providers as the backstage hero increase their capability to help with the disaster relief?
How fast can a company restore its normal operation after disasters like fire, twister, flooding or computer disruptions?
According to research entities, tens of thousands of companies in America are not prepared for disaster. As indicated by the department of labor, over 40 percent internet companies never considered disaster prevention measures. Over 50 percent companies have lost business due to data losses or operation interruptions. Among the companies who have shut down due to major disaster event 40% of them never recovered, at least 25 percent of the rest of the companies have declared bankruptcy in 2 years after the events.
The CEO of Beijing Fastweb inc. has rendered: lack of "hardship conscience" is the major obstacle to the safety of small enterprise data centers. Up to now most internet companies simply treat CDN service as web content acceleration, ignoring the other functions such as "safety or backup". Nowadays with the sudden onset of natural disasters, they bring no only collapsed houses, loss of lives and companies equipments, but also damage of major data cores. The occurrence of such big scale disaster has not only shown the fragility of human lives, but also created the demand for roles of "safety net" that CDN services can provide.
Beijing Fastweb inc. has created not only all encompassing professional data loss recovery plan, but also introduced powerful data house recovery tools. When customers' hardware failure or hacker attack causes data damage or system shut down, the safety or backup systems can kick in intelligently to provide website visitors contents and thus reducing the disaster loss to the minimum, further upholding Beijing Fastweb's principles of "professional, safe and efficient" services. In addition Beijing Fastweb provide 7 x 24 hours service support to ensure the highest rate of success in data recovery.
The experts in internet IT industry have rendered: in the time of widespread and fast developing electronic and information technology, more companies are considering ways to handle and guarantee the safety of their core data applications. Arranging automatic data backup and getting ready before disaster strikes, these measures are becoming indispensable for IT companies.