Business operations that are heavily dependent on information systems may be significantly impacted even by a brief application outage. Impact of a data loss is even more drastic. IDC estimates that in a disaster situation, the average loss is $3 million per incident and $81,000 per hour.
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Table of Contents
The Need for Business Continuity................................................................................................................ 3Assessing the Impact of an Outage............................................................................................................ 3Commercially Feasible Business Continuity Strategy............................................................................. 3Virtual Infrastructure in the Enterprise...................................................................................................... 4VMware ESX Server.................................................................................................................................... 5VMware Server............................................................................................................................................ 5VMware VirtualCenter and VMotion...................................................................................................... 5How Virtualization Helps Business Continuity......................................................................................... 6Pain Points in Current Implementations of Business Continuity................................................... 6Built-in Continuous Availability.............................................................................................................. 7Hardware Independence.......................................................................................................................... 7Hardware Consolidation........................................................................................................................... 7Business Continuity Solutions with Virtualization.................................................................................. 8High Availability Without Complex Configurations.......................................................................... 8Cost Effective Failover Clustering ......................................................................................................... 9Continuity with Virtual Machines on Storage Area Networks ....................................................... 9Storage Array Based Replication ........................................................................................................... 10Virtualized Failover Site ........................................................................................................................... 11Backup Operations .................................................................................................................................... 12Before and After Examples............................................................................................................................ 13Online Hot Site............................................................................................................................................ 13Tape Backup and Recovery...................................................................................................................... 13Disaster Recovery with Tapes for a Virtual Infrastructure................................................................ 13Benefits of Virtualization for Business Continuity................................................................................... 14Insourcing vs. Outsourcing Trend................................................................................................................ 15Expanding Business Continuity Coverage................................................................................................. 15Conclusion and Next Steps............................................................................................................................ 16List of Acronyms and Abbreviations........................................................................................................... 16
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Making Your Business Disaster Ready with Virtual Infrastructure
The Need for Business Continuity system in the disaster protection plan (under the umbrella of Business continuity and disaster recovery (DR) planning are the larger business continuity plan) should be gauged against critical to managing risks in a successful business. Between 60- the potenti... [download for more]
