Business Continuity
Each year hundreds of data centers worldwide will experience significant service interruptions. These businesses will be threatened by problems ranging from user errors to viruses, to hardware failures and natural disasters. Business Continuity is now at the forefront of corporate IT strategies and has gained visibility throughout all levels of management up to the CEO. Elements of a successful business continuity strategy include:
Each year hundreds of data centers worldwide will experience significant service interruptions. These businesses will be threatened by problems ranging from user errors to viruses, to hardware failures and natural disasters. Business Continuity is now at the forefront of corporate IT strategies and has gained visibility throughout all levels of management up to the CEO. Elements of a successful business continuity strategy include:
- Application availability planning
- Preventive measures including monitoring and platform redundancy
- Data Protection
- Disaster recovery strategy
- Effective personnel plans
- Faster and less expensive disaster recovery due to hardware independence between primary and failover servers
- Elimination of scheduled hardware downtime and dramatic reduction in scheduled software downtime
- Single point of control for managing all the virtual machines and monitoring their host machines
- Encapsulation of complete machines into files for capture and recovery
- Simplified and repeatable automated processes
