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software and systems virtualisation continuity and disaster recovery
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Industry analysts advise that 50% of businesses that lose their data go out of business almost immediately. And of the other 50%, nine out of ten fail within two years.
Is your business safe?
Each year one in five UK companies will experience significant service interruptions. These businesses will be threatened by a range of problems including software failures, hardware failures, viruses, and more. In a world where businesses operate every hour of the day, ensuring business continuity is critical to ensuring business survival.
Having a planned response to a disaster will help you ensure that customers, brand strength, reputation & key suppliers are maintained, and that the potential financial loss to your business is minimised.
Hardware Recovery – rapid and reliable
System recovery is often a complex and labor-intensive process. Ensuring reliable recovery typically involves locating appropriate hardware, installing an operating system, installing backup agents, modifying registry and system configurations, and then beginning the recovery process. Testing this process is equally time-consuming and complex, making it more difficult to be certain of successful recovery.
Virtual machines can be preconfigured and archived with all installation and configuration of operating system and applications completed in order to reduce the time required to complete recovery. These virtual machines can run on any hardware because of their hardware-independence. Using virtual machines for testing of recovery provides the benefit of eliminating the obstacle of finding the specific hardware needed for testing.
We kept it simple. Our appliances allow you to do what you do today, adding consolidation benefits, load balancing and high availability.
Cost savings of around 30% year on year are achieved on licensing, hardware and support.
Is your business safe?
Each year one in five UK companies will experience significant service interruptions. These businesses will be threatened by a range of problems including software failures, hardware failures, viruses, and more. In a world where businesses operate every hour of the day, ensuring business continuity is critical to ensuring business survival.
Having a planned response to a disaster will help you ensure that customers, brand strength, reputation & key suppliers are maintained, and that the potential financial loss to your business is minimised.
Despite the harrowing statistics, only 34% of SMEs in the UK actually undertake business continuity planning (according to the Business Continuity Management Survey 2005).
Business continuity has to become a requirement for corporate IT strategies.
Using a virtual infrastructure, IT managers can guarantee business continuity by realizing:
Using a virtual infrastructure, IT managers can guarantee business continuity by realizing:
- Faster, more flexible, and more reliable disaster recovery at a lower cost
- Significant reductions in planned and unplanned downtime
- Simplified and repeatable processes for implementing business continuity solutions
Reduce Downtime – through rapid, reliable failover
Implementing a solution to enable failover of key applications is a key element in reducing application downtime. However, because the hardware and software configuration of the failover targets must be identical to the primary environment, implementing a failover solution is expensive in terms of both capital costs and ongoing maintenance and support costs.
VMware virtual infrastructure streamlines failover, reducing costs and ensuring rapid, reliable failover. Because virtual machines are hardware-independent and can share physical resources, failover can be implemented without requiring identical hardware and lockstep upgrades. By using shared or replicated storage, virtual machines can immediately be restarted on the failover targets when a failure occurs in the primary site environment, saving time in the failover process.
Implementing a solution to enable failover of key applications is a key element in reducing application downtime. However, because the hardware and software configuration of the failover targets must be identical to the primary environment, implementing a failover solution is expensive in terms of both capital costs and ongoing maintenance and support costs.
VMware virtual infrastructure streamlines failover, reducing costs and ensuring rapid, reliable failover. Because virtual machines are hardware-independent and can share physical resources, failover can be implemented without requiring identical hardware and lockstep upgrades. By using shared or replicated storage, virtual machines can immediately be restarted on the failover targets when a failure occurs in the primary site environment, saving time in the failover process.
Hardware Recovery – rapid and reliable
System recovery is often a complex and labor-intensive process. Ensuring reliable recovery typically involves locating appropriate hardware, installing an operating system, installing backup agents, modifying registry and system configurations, and then beginning the recovery process. Testing this process is equally time-consuming and complex, making it more difficult to be certain of successful recovery.
Virtual machines can be preconfigured and archived with all installation and configuration of operating system and applications completed in order to reduce the time required to complete recovery. These virtual machines can run on any hardware because of their hardware-independence. Using virtual machines for testing of recovery provides the benefit of eliminating the obstacle of finding the specific hardware needed for testing.
Our technical team has developed "off the shelf" appliances to host multiple virtual servers allowing you to only purchase standard editions of the software licenses you use today.
We kept it simple. Our appliances allow you to do what you do today, adding consolidation benefits, load balancing and high availability.
Cost savings of around 30% year on year are achieved on licensing, hardware and support.
