Traditional disaster recovery infrastructures including tape backup, image capture, high-end replication and hardware clustering have failed to keep pace with business requirements for recovery speed and integrity at a reasonable cost.

Charged with the task of extending disaster recovery capabilities to cover a broader spectrum of server workloads in the enterprise, IT departments are beginning to explore new disaster recovery alternatives. An emerging trend is for organisations to leverage server virtualisation to achieve disaster recovery capabilities. Server virtualisation and supporting technologies can afford significant cost and performance advantages over conventional recovery options.

Consolidated recovery allows organisations to replicate whole workloads (data, application and operating systems) to a warm standby virtualised environment and rapidly recover a workload in the event of a production outage simply by powering up a virtual machine. Multiple physical and virtual workloads can be consolidated onto a single recovery server or purpose-built appliance, allowing organisations to avoid the high cost of duplicate hardware and software.

Find out how virtualization, together with workload portability technologies, enables organizations to implement a disaster recovery plan that is more affordable and flexible than traditional options, while providing rapid restore times and enterprise-level workload protection.