A Guide to Ensuring Business Continuity Through the Power of Virtualization

With increasing pressure to better serve customers, ensure revenue growth and remain competitive at all times, business leaders are seeking a solution that allows them to efficiently continue to conduct business as usual - no matter what situation arises. In this regard, establishing a disaster recovery and business continuity plan that focuses solely on major disasters that can disable or destroy a datacenter - such as earthquakes, hurricanes, pandemics or a tsunami - is not enough. A comprehensive strategy must also account for more common events that, although they may not affect the datacenter, still have a significant impact on business operations because they keep employees from getting into the office - such as a transit strike or water main break.