Virtualization and Business Continuity Reciprocal Affinities

Table of Contents
IDC Opinion
In This Study
Situation Overview
Traditional Business Continuity: Assessment and Definitions
High Availability
Maintaining Uptime with High Availability
High Availability/Geographical Clustering
Storage
Information Classes
Remote Data Replication
Continuous Data Protection
Disaster Recovery Backups
The Importance of Business Continuity
Prevention is Better Than Cure
Regulation and Standards
Disaster Recovery Planning
Customers
How Virtualization Changes Business Continuity Solutions
Virtualization Requires a Fresh Approach
Virtualization as a Driver for Business Continuity
Supporting Technologies for Business Continuity in Virtualized Environments
Integrating Traditional and Virtualization-Based Business Continuity
The Need for Integration
How to Deliver a Quick ROI with Virtualization-Based Business Continuity
Business Continuity in a Virtualized Environment
Planned Downtime: Server Maintenance
Unplanned Downtime: Server Failure
Unplanned Downtime: Workload Management
Unplanned Downtime: Large-Scale Disaster
Integration with the Wider Information Infrastructure
Further Considerations
Compliance and Management
Improved Business Continuity for the Virtual Desktop
Future Outlook
Demand
Supply
Essential Guidance
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Related Research
Synopsis
Table: Classes of Information and Levels of Protection
Table: Planned and Unplanned Downtime in Virtualized versus Traditional Business Continuity Environments
Figure: Business Continuity Strategies: High Availability Spectrum
Figure: Different Stages of Virtualization Adoption
Figure: Availability as a Key Driver for Virtualization
Figure: Planned and Unplanned Downtime Scenarios