Virtualization Essentials

Protecting Datacenters

Even by protecting the infrastructure, there are still events that cannot be controlled. Natural and man-made disasters strike without warning, and there is little that can be done for a datacenter affected by such an event. The results of the event can be even more catastrophic for the company. Unlike the negative publicity short-term outages generate, the loss of a datacenter often costs the company its existence. According to the National Archives and Records Administration, 93 percent of companies that lost their datacenters for 10 days were bankrupt within the year. Even short lapses are devastating. Gartner reported that companies who lose access to their information for more than 24 hours due to a disaster have a ...