BUSINESS CONTINUITY & DISASTER RECOVERY

Each year hundreds of data centers, worldwide, experience significant service interruptions, caused by problems ranging from user errors to viruses, hardware failures to natural disasters.

However 67% of Irish companies have no disaster recovery plan in place to cope with these threats - even though over half of those companies have multiple locations throughout the country dependent on a central IT service centre.

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

Using virtual infrastructure, IT managers can improve all aspects of business continuity, such as:

• Faster, less expensive disaster recovery due to hardware independence
• 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.