Virtualization has many an upside, not the least of which is its value to disaster recovery efforts.
“Before virtualization, disaster recovery was so expensive to implement that organizations had to choose only the most critical applications to protect and hope for the best for the rest,” says Jeff Nessen, practice director of platform virtualization for Logicalis. “With a carefully planned virtualization strategy, disaster recovery can now be provided for a much broader range of applications and data.”
However, if virtualization isn’t executed with thoughtful precision, the whole virtual mess can tumble even the mightiest of corporate recovery plans.
“When implemented and designed correctly, a virtual environment is an armored bunker 200 feet below the surface where all your eggs are stored; incorrectly, it is a basket on the edge of a wall with very high crosswinds that may cause the basket to tip over at any time,” says Gregory L. Smith, senior product architect at SunGard Availability Services. READ MORE
