Virtualization for improved business continuity planning

Discerning the best business continuity strategy for your organization is fraught with complexity on several fronts, most notably technical, operational and financial. Virtualization offers a simpler path through these difficult challenges.

HP server and storage hardware and software combined with exchange virtualization offer:

• New, cost-effective options to traditional business continuity management
• Options from affordable low-cost data backup or virtual machine replication to advanced highly available multi-site solutions that enable ongoing operations in the event of a disaster

A conventional data disaster recovery plan requires maintaining duplicate environments at both the production and replication site, which can be expensive, complex, and error prone.  Under this scenario for system recovery, unsaved file system/cache data can be lost and duplicate environments that do not match exactly, risking boot failure.

The HP solution leveraging virtualization software at the replication site makes it possible to build a cost-effective data disaster recovery plan since matching, duplicate hardware is not required and it delivers continuous, real-time data protection with application fail-over using HP Storage Mirroring software.