Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery with CA Recovery Management and VMware Infrastructure

TECHNOLOGY BRIEF: CA RECOVERY MANAGEMENT AND VMWARE INFRASTRUCTURE
Business Continuity and
Disaster Recovery with
CA Recovery Management and
VMware Infrastructure
CA Recovery Management Team Table of Contents
Executive Summary SECTION 4: CONCLUSIONS 16
SECTION 1: CHALLENGE 2 SECTION 5: REFERENCES 16The Importance of Flexible, Cost-effective BC and DRThe Increasing Expense and Complexity of Data Recovery
SECTION 2: OPPORTUNITY 4Reducing Cost and ComplexityVMware InfrastructureVMware ESX ServerVMware Infrastructure Components ThatSupport BC and DRCA Recovery ManagementMaximizing Availability for Virtualized Servers
SECTION 3: BENEFITS 15Protecting Physical and Virtual Servers Acrossthe Enterprise
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Challenge
The expansion of IT systems to support the growth of mission-critical business processesand services is fueling two parallel trends. One is the increase in the deployment of newapplications and the provision of access to them and their information in ways that areeconomical, flexible, fast and well managed. The other is an increase in the implementationof business continuity (BC), disaster recovery (DR) and high availability (HA) initiativesaimed at safeguarding these applications. As such, many organizations are particularlychallenged with simultaneously supporting and protecting their growing farms of mission-critical business applications with cost-effective BC and DR programs.
Opportunity
Organizations need powerful and affordable solutions for maintaining continuousavailability of applications that enable critical IT processes via data protection, businesscontinuity and high availability, necessitating broad coverage of all major contingencies onall servers. To address these difficult issues, a new and combined offering from CA andVMware provides a novel, integrated approach to application and server provisioning. Thisapproach reduces total cost and complexity, while increasing application availability andaugmenting information safety.
Benefits
CA Recovery Management and VMware Infrastructure help you effectively respond to thechallenges and opportunities of business-critical computing. Specifically, the combinedsolution leverages the strengths of two powerful software management systems to:. Enable you to rapidly and economically deploy physical and virtual servers. Provide a multi-layered disaster recovery system that addresses a wide array ofcontingencies. Help organizations of any size to reduce management complexity, operating costs andpower and cooling requirements, all while increasing server and application availabilityand reliability
TECHNOLOGY BRIEF: CA RECOVERY MANAGEMENT AND VMWARE INFRASTRUCTURE 1SECTION 1: CHALLENGE The Importance of Flexible, Cost-effective BC and DRToday, organizations of all sizes and types depend heavily upon their IT resources to surviveand thrive in an increasingly competitive marketplace, which is why they require the ability torapidly and economically deploy BC solutions to protect the technologies that run theirmission-critical applications.
Any time the IT systems that power core business processes are disrupted, the negativeimpacts and risks multiply quickly and can include:. Reduced revenues when clients and partners cannot reach key business systems or services. Diminished productivity because employees are unable to work. Decreased stock valuations from a lack of investor confidence . Lost opportunities due to defecting customers
And while you may consider the likelihood of a major disruption highly improbable, the picturechanges when you allow for the entire range of potential causes, such as:. Viruses, Trojan horses, and worms. Fiber cut... [download for more]