Businesses need to virtualise and protect their workloads along with data as a key part of disaster recovery programmes

Rob Aherne, UK Channel Manager for PlateSpin at Novell comments. End Quote

(1888PressRelease) March 21, 2011 - “Most businesses by now have a good understanding about the importance that their digital data plays in their organisation. And in the past years there have been enough media scare stories of data breaches or system failure to put the issue of disaster recovery to the top of the IT managers’ agenda.

“While a business’s data should definitely be protected and backed-up properly, many IT departments are not currently taking full system disaster recovery as seriously as they should. So in a scenario where a system failure occurs – potentially as a result of fire, theft or hacking – a company may well be able to restore its digital data, but it could take weeks to build the full IT infrastructure from scratch.

“Historically, having in place a full system disaster recovery arrangement was both complicated and costly, and only the reserve of specialist financial intuitions or other organisations running mission-critical systems. However the rapid rise of virtualisation now means that this type of system protection can be deployed by organisations of all sizes and requirements.

“Many IT managers are in the process of migrating, or planning their transition towards virtualising their datacenters in a bid to consolidate IT assets for greater efficiency and ease of management. So in this process they should also consider how they can use virtualisation as a tool for data back-up, but also for disaster recovery of entire workloads – including operating systems, middleware and applications. By virtualising workloads, an IT manager can create a snapshot of their systems, allowing for restoration of everything very quickly.

“Virtualising a workload in this way can also provide a way to protect wholesale migrations to server virtualisation, as it is possible to move on to new systems in a phased approach, without risks of downtime.

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