Virtualization Makes Disaster Recovery Affordable

Shared storage was the first big step forward for disaster recovery for SMEs, now, as this Network World article points out, server virtualization has changed the rules for business continuity and disaster recovery. Now companies of all sizes are realizing they can have both IT services using virtualization technology.

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"Virtual machine management and site recovery tools provide the interface to instruct the virtual machines to move to the off-site location, where they are restarted in minutes or hours rather than days or weeks that were necessary previously.

"With virtualization, you create a more resilient production architecture -- servers are easily moved among physical hosts, shared storage solutions provide enterprise class features with five-nines availability, snapshots provide multiple point in time recovery points -- meaning there will be fewer situations when utilizing the disaster-recovery strategy will be necessary. Yet, when it is necessary, SMEs can now avoid the costly downtime that can be so damaging for a business."

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