Improving Business Continuity with VMware Virtualization

Implementing plans to ensure business continuity for IT infrastructure is an essential requirement for organizations today. Downtime of important applications is a costly proposition and extended downtime can even be fatal— industry research has shown that a significant number of companies that experience extended interruption to IT services are likely to go out of business. In fact, according to the National Archives and Records Administration, 93 percent of companies that lost their data center for 10 days or more due to a disaster filed for bankruptcy within one year of the disaster.