Unanticipated downtime can impact businesses in several ways including loss of productivity, revenues and brand reputation. Conventional methods of tackling outages are reactive in nature and do not effectively address the needs of today’s evolving infrastructural environment.

Widespread adoption of connected devices and digital technologies including cloud have made enterprises implement significant modifications to their business strategies with respect to resource allocation, infrastructure, operational and financial requirements. Cloud computing offers self-serving network access to the flexible and on-demand shared pool of configurable computing resources, which can be rapidly provisioned and released with minimal effort or service provider interaction.