Regardless of the cause – whether natural or man-made – companies are having
serious difficulties maintaining server
uptime when things go awry. Among
respondents to the Disaster Recovery
Index, 86 percent experienced downtime
last year, losing an average of 2. 2 days
of business. No business, whether a local
construction company or global financial
organization, can afford to lose several
days’ worth of productivity. Because data
access is often essential for end user satisfaction, as is the case with many e-busi-nesses, customers have zero tolerance for
“blackouts,” and they’ll often take their
business elsewhere when the lights go out.
Backing up and recovering data should
be a top priority for any kind of organization. So, how and why are they falling
short in protecting data?
Virtualization and Cloud:
Game-Changers
A huge reason companies are lagging
so far behind in their backup and disaster
recovery capabilities is not just the vol-
umes of data they are dealing with, but the
changing complexity of the infrastructure
that is storing and processing this data
– namely, virtualized and cloud-based
environments. Due to gains in flexibility,
scalability, and cost-effectiveness, com-
panies are complementing, and, in many
cases, replacing, their physical infrastruc-
ture with virtualized and cloud-based
servers. And, like skyrocketing Big Data,
infrastructure evolution is also growing
exponentially.
