How to Accelerate IT Resiliency Through Virtualization
According to ESGâs most current IT spending intentions research, increasing the use of server virtualization and improving backup and recovery are consistently among todayâs most important IT priorities (see Figure 1).1 This situation has been the case since 2012âin each annual survey, virtualization and backup have been either near or directly adjacent to each other within the âtop fiveâ most frequently mentioned priorities. Figure 1.
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Best Practices in Business Recovery: Colocation or DRaaS?
In the not-too-distant past, protecting an organizationâs data meant shipping backup tapes offsite so that the tapes would be protected against data center disasters such as fire. Today this approach is completely inadequate. To remain competitive today, organizations must not only protect their data, but also ensure business continuity. In short, missioncritical workloads need to be able to failover to an alternate location where they can continue to run even if the primary datacenter is destroyed.
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The Disaster Recovery Maturity Framework
Businesses are critically reliant upon IT systems, which can inflict significant financial harm when they go down. The potential causes of downtime include lost or corrupted files, application failure due to a software virus, server hardware malfunction, temporary power outage, or a natural disaster that takes out an entire facility. For decades, IT managers have protected their infrastructures using a combination of preventive measures (e.g., backup power systems, off-site data storage, antivirus software) and recovery and restoration activities…
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