The last mile of virtualization

Virtualization has been one of the biggest shifts over the last year and will continue to influence IT in 2011.

Companies everywhere are achieving the benefits of virtualization by reducing the number of servers in their environments. In addition, the ability to backup and recover applications and data from both physical and virtual environments with a single solution will help organizations reduce overall costs and IT complexity. However, it does lead to an increase in management costs, and without a plan to protect these environments; companies may not realize the full ROI.
The rapid adoption, yet fragmented implementation and lack of standardization when it comes to virtual infrastructure will expose gaps in the security and backup of virtual environments over the next year.

Gap in disaster recovery for virtual environments

The number of applications and amount of data in virtual environments will grow significantly in 2011, increasing the need for disaster recovery solutions that protect these applications.

The 2010 Symantec Disaster Recovery Survey found that while a little more than half of data within virtual systems is regularly backed up, there is significant room for improvement.

Remembering that virtual machine protection carries with it the same expectation that customers have of physical environments, organizations should implement disaster recovery technologies to ensure their mission-critical data in virtual environments is protected from everyday business risks to devastating disasters.


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Source: Informationweek (India)
By: Anand Naik