Rethinking Enterprise Storage: A Hybrid Cloud Model

Chapter 3. Accelerating and broadening disaster recovery protection

IT teams are constantly looking for ways to improve the processes, equipment, and services they use for disaster recovery (DR). The pressures of data growth and the importance of data to their organizations mean they need to cover more data with better DR technology at lower costs. The problem is that disaster preparation, like insurance, is a cost that returns nothing to the organization until something bad happens. DR solutions that can be leveraged for other purposes give a much better return on their investment.

Reducing downtime and data loss are important elements of any DR strategy. Many IT teams have DR strategies that focus most of the attention on a small number of mission-critical ...