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"Only 31% of CIO’s rate their disaster recovery plans as extremely or very effective and 73% plan to make changes to their disaster recovery plans. In a recent Forrester research study, 83% of enterprises surveyed that are implementing or interested in x86 server virtualization indicate that improving disaster recovery/business continuity (DR/BC) continues to be a important or very important motivation for adoption of virtualization technology. VMware Infrastructure and the recently announced VMware Site Recovery Manager product make viable disaster recovery a reality, allowing organizations to deliver automated disaster recovery that is rapid, reliable, and affordable. VMware makes this possible by providing true hardware independence, dramatically reduced hardware requirements, and far easier testing”.
Keep Your Business Running Non-Stop
Can your business afford any disruption of IT services? Thousands of data centers experience significant services interruptions every year, at the cost of lost business revenue and lost data-or worse. And while disasters and unplanned downtime get the big headlines, planned downtime for hardware maintenance and backups is the cause of the majority of service downtime. With VMware Infrastructure and VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager, customers trust VMware to deploy business continuity plans to the world's most demanding datacenters. Read our white papers on business continuity to learn more.
Achieve Better Data Protection, High Availability, and Disaster Recovery
Business continuity has become a vital ingredient of IT strategies in a world where businesses need to operate 24 hours a day. The disruption of IT services can be fatal to a business. VMware’s virtualization products give you the means to eliminate planned downtime, deliver high availability, and be better prepared for disaster recovery. Virtualise your data center and make it easier to build solutions for the following:
- Data protection, including non-disruptive backup and restore processes
- High availability through reduced planned and unplanned downtime
- Disaster recovery with hardware independent recovery
Quote - "For our original disaster recovery system using a SAN, we were doing everything at both sites. We were purchasing twice as much equipment than we really needed. With VMware, I don't have to have the same equipment there. I can use my existing server hardware there and bring in newer, higher performing servers here."
- Jeff Szastak, technology officer for Oak Associates
Disaster Recovery Challenges Today
In today’s business environment, having robust disaster recovery is no longer a luxury, it is a necessity. Given the high probability and variety of events that cause outages, including natural disasters (hurricanes, earthquakes, snow storms, flooding) and manmade events (power outages, terrorism, viruses) a disruption to business systems is not a question of if, but when. Disaster recovery needs to be core to your IT strategy. With the increasing number of x86 based servers running mission critical applications-such as Microsoft SQL Server, Exchange Server, CRM applications, Oracle databases-the need for disaster recovery has never been more relevant and urgent. Additionally with multi-tier dependencies, many unprotected lower tier applications (eg., DNS, AD) will compromise recovery for your dependent Tier 1 service (e.g., database). IT and business executives often struggle to protect their IT infrastructures due to a lack of pragmatic, cost-effective and reliable solutions.