The Register – New and inventive code is transforming your business – and bringing with it new and inventive ways for things to fail

Businesses are becoming increasingly digitalised, with operations and customer experiences relying on data and devices being online all the time.

Application architectures and practices are evolving around high-availability and low-touch administration to allow rapid change, while also serving a variety of platforms.

Increasingly, this is putting tier-one business applications, such as enterprise resource planning and collaboration, on the frontline. These tier-one apps are the lifeblood of digital business: of real-time manufacturing, of decision taking, of customer interaction.

So, OK, you’ve digitalised your operation, but what if your system goes down or data is lost? Remember WannaCry in 2017: critical hospital systems locked down by a global ransomware outbreak?

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