Using Virtualized Servers to Save Money on Disaster Recovery

Overview

Companies don’t need to experience a disaster firsthand to see the importance of having a solid disaster recovery plan. A study found over 40 percent of businesses that suffered a disaster never reopened. Within two years of the crisis an additional 29 percent failed.1 Even minor disruptions can severely impact operations if they bring your network down. Every hour that your business can’t do business means lost revenues and unhappy customers.The growing sophisticated virtualization technology slashed one way to curb the costs of disaster recovery by using virtualized servers and storage area networks linking distant datacenters.

The advantage of virtualized servers is you don’t need to match every server with an identical backup server. One virtualized server, running multiple operating systems and server applications as “virtual machines,” can back up multiple servers. The article introduces us how virtualization technology supports in disaster recovery in detail and the multiple options customers can search for.