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The Many Benefits Of System Redundancy For An Organization
Discover the numerous advantages of implementing system redundancy for your organization and enhance operational reliability.

The term redundancy is hardly ever used as a positive term or in a positive context. Generally speaking, redundancy refers to an unnecessary repetition or copy of something and has connotations of beating around the bush, especially where writing and speech are concerned.
But let’s forget about that for a moment. From a purely business operations point of view, redundancy is one of the best and most reliable ways to ensure the soundness of your critical infrastructure. It helps ensure your networks are running the way they should: free of any disruption.
With people’s patience for downtime continually wearing thin and its costs constantly on the rise, organizations need to make sure that they are minimizing downtime as much as possible. Thanks to redundant systems, you can ensure that downtime, both planned and unplanned, isn’t as big of a headache as it would be otherwise. But that’s not all; redundant systems provide organizations with a host of other benefits.
What Is System Redundancy?
System redundancy refers to the duplication of critical components and infrastructure that can be used as a fallback in case of failure with the primary critical infrastructure. These backup systems are known as redundant systems.
Types Of Redundancy
System redundancy is classified into three main categories:
- Hardware Redundancy: This is the duplication of critical hardware assets such as servers and data centers. It can also include duplication of power sources and network components.
- Software Redundancy: This involves running different copies or instances of software that is critical to the infrastructure on various devices and servers.
- Data Redundancy: This refers to making multiple copies of critical data and storing it in different locations within the same storage system or even a different storage system entirely.
How Does System Redundancy Help?
Increased Reliability
Redundant systems function as a backup for your critical infrastructure. This means you have assets and other systems in place that are primed and ready to take over promptly in case of failure in your primary asset infrastructure, greatly enhancing your fault tolerance. This is an especially effective way to ensure your systems are operating as intended, even when there is a failure. Redundant systems can significantly reduce downtime and ensure uninterrupted business continuity.
Improved Performance
Redundant systems don’t exist to serve merely as backups. Implementing redundancy into your critical infrastructure provides you with a lot more resources to work with. This enables you to improve performance by spreading the workload across multiple devices during periods of heavy load, resulting in reduced latency and optimal performance levels.
Where network performance is concerned, redundant systems provide a great solution to the problem of network brownouts (also known as unusable uptime). When downtime occurs, it often results in periods of greatly reduced performance, even after the network is up and running again. Network brownouts are among the biggest, albeit often overlooked, threats faced by IT organizations.
Disaster Recovery
Having redundant systems in place can greatly aid organizations with disaster recovery. We’ve already discussed how these systems allow you to quickly bounce back even when there is a failure in your critical infrastructure. Data redundancy, in particular, can enable you to quickly recover from a situation where you lose critical data either due to a malfunction in your storage infrastructure or an malicious action such as a ransomware attack. Having a backup of your critical data provides you with a simple data restoration option. It can enable you to revert to a previous state — before the data loss occurred.
The Benefits Outweigh The Cost
While the initial investment requirements for redundant systems are substantial, there is no doubt that they provide massive benefits and cost-savings in the long run. Ultimately, the organization needs to decide which systems need redundancy, but when implemented effectively, redundancy is a net positive for the organization.
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Checkout.com Brings Visa Direct Push-To-Card To The UAE
The payment company is the first acquirer in the UAE to launch Visa Direct’s solution, enabling safe, instant money transfers.

Checkout.com has taken the UAE a step closer to its goal of a fully digital economy by becoming the first acquirer in the country to offer Visa Direct’s Push-to-Card solution. The new service will streamline money transfers for both businesses and consumers, enabling near-instant transactions across local and international markets.
Visa Direct connects over 190 markets and supports over 8.5 billion endpoints, including cards, bank accounts, and digital wallets. Push-to-Card transactions enhance efficiency for business users and consumers by allowing money to be sent quickly and easily to eligible Visa cards while leveraging the company’s secure network for reliability.
“Visa Direct is transforming the way money moves globally, and we are excited to see Checkout.com leverage this technology to meet the evolving demands of businesses and individuals alike by offering them a faster, more convenient, and secure way to send and receive funds,” said Shahebaz Khan, Senior Vice President and Head of Commercial and Money Movement Solutions, CEMEA.
The UAE has been at the forefront of digital payment adoption, driven by a national push toward a cashless economy. Remo Giovanni Abbondandolo, General Manager for MENA at Checkout.com, emphasized this shift: “By providing seamless, secure, and real-time payout capabilities, we’re empowering merchants with the agility to thrive in this fast-evolving landscape, while effectively meeting the growing consumer demand for speed and convenience. The Push-to-Card solution not only reinforces our commitment to powering payment performance but also showcases our agility in bringing yet another innovation to the UAE market.”
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Checkout.com’s latest MENA eCommerce data highlights the region’s increasing engagement with financial technologies, with around 80% of consumers participating in activities beyond basic online payments, such as money transfers and personal wealth management. The growing demand for real-time financial transactions has made fast, seamless payment solutions a priority.
To meet this demand, Account Funding Transactions (AFTs) have gained traction in the UAE. By integrating AFTs with Visa’s Push-to-Card services, Checkout.com is helping merchants offer secure, real-time account top-ups. Currently processing over one million AFTs per month with Visa, Checkout.com is now playing a leading role in modernizing financial transactions in the region.
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