disaster recovery
For some time tape drive backups have been the de-facto standard for the delivery of disaster recovery.
Data and system configurations are backed-up periodically to tape and kept in an off-site location.
But in a disaster situation, how quickly could you have a new system built? How long will it take to find a tape drive capable of reading your particular media? How much time will be spent adapting your system configuration to work on completely new hardware?
Backups to tape are all well and good but today there are more universal methods available that are much more effective.
Imagine having an entire snapshot of your live server held in an offsite location; a snapshot that can be restored to any server hardware without the need for a replacement proprietary backup device.
Imagine being able to restore your entire live system with no configuration complications, greatly reducing the amount of engineering time involved.
Virtualisation can achieve all of this and more.
At taylorcocks IT we deploy enterprise-level virtualisation solutions at an affordable cost for small and medium sized businesses. Please see virtualisation for more information on this.
