Fail-safety describes the ability of IT systems to continue running reliably despite malfunctions or failures, or to be restored quickly. It thus goes beyond traditional IT security: while security protects against attacks, fail-safety ensures the continuous availability of applications, data, and processes.

This topic is strategically important for CIOs. Any unplanned outage can cause financial damage, interrupt production processes, or permanently damage the trust of customers and partners. Reliability is therefore not just a technical issue, but also a matter of business-critical resilience.

An IT failure is much more than just a technical problem. Studies show that even a few hours of downtime can cause significant financial damage. In industry, interrupted production lines, disrupted supply chains, or the shutdown of networked machines can jeopardize not only efficiency but entire business models.

IT failures have immediate and sometimes serious consequences, particularly in sectors such as the automotive industry, mechanical engineering, chemicals, and energy supply. When production facilities can no longer be controlled or industrial control systems fail, this results in production losses, quality problems, and in some cases even safety risks. Added to this are indirect costs: angry business partners, delivery delays, contractual penalties, or the risk of no longer being able to meet regulatory requirements.

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To ensure reliability, companies resort to various technical and organizational measures:

• Redundancy & high availability: Systems are designed so that the failure of individual components does not stop operation.
• Monitoring & automation: Modern tools detect anomalies early on and react automatically before downtime occurs.
• Cloud & multi-cloud approaches: Distributing data across different platforms minimizes risks and increases flexibility.

This is where the pronubes IT/OT platform comes into play. pronubes ensures a transparent and clear data structure and creates the basis for high availability, automation, and monitoring. In addition, new devices, systems, or cloud applications can be quickly and easily integrated into pronubes to ensure distribution across different platforms. This embeds the entire IT strategy.

The result: higher reliability, lower risks, and more freedom for innovation.

The CIO is responsible for embedding reliability as an integral part of the IT and corporate strategy. They must ensure that technical measures are embedded in a clear business context and are not viewed in isolation.

Their core tasks include:

• Assessing risks and prioritizing investments: Which systems are business-critical? Where does redundancy bring the greatest added value?
• Building bridges between business and IT: Business departments expect availability and stability – the CIO translates these requirements into concrete technical solutions.
• Communicating the importance of reliability at the executive level: Only when reliability is understood as a strategic success factor can the necessary budgets and resources be secured in the long term.

In this way, reliability is not perceived as a pure cost factor, but as an enabler for innovation, digitalization, and sustainable growth. Especially in times of Industry 4.0, IoT, and globally networked supply chains, it is a decisive competitive factor for every company.

Maximum reliability with pronubes

In a digitalized world, every minute of IT downtime can potentially cost millions. Production stoppages, angry customers, or contractual penalties—CIOs know the risks. But the good news is that reliability can be planned and consistently implemented.

pronubes is your platform when it comes to making IT infrastructures resilient and future-proof. pronubes combines technological excellence with practical strategies that are tailored precisely to the requirements of CIOs.

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