Vitualization can be leveraged to get a downed server back up and running in minutes rather than hours.

According to an InformationWeek survey of 681 technology professionals, 17 percent have no business continuity/disaster recovery plan and 20 percent are currently working on one. Cost and complexity were seen as the two biggest prohibitors. Virtualization is considered a key technology in overcoming both those obstacles.

In addition to cutting energy costs and server sprawl, vitualization can be leveraged to get a downed server back up and running in minutes rather than hours. SunGuard executive vice president and CTO Indu Kodukula explained to Mike Vizard how virtualization is transforming backup and recovery over at our CTO Edge site.

When it comes to high availability solutions, SMBs should approach disaster recovery with consideration to the size of their IT staff and available resources, says Paul Mah on IT Business Edge.