It takes HOW long to recover?
We recently commissioned the consulting firm of Brilliant Ideas, LLC to do a data center survey.
This survey, given to over 500 IT professionals of director-level or higher, was designed to examine prevailing attitudes towards virtualization, server failover, and management technologies in the enterprise data center.
We were shocked by some of the results - most specifically, by the results around Disaster Recovery and Server Failover.
According to our survey, 89% of these respondents (who include many of the world's leading organizations) test their DR recovery abilities only once a year... or less.
Almost 2/3 of the respondents stated that they were "minimally confident" that their systems would actually work as planned in the event of a real emergency.
70% said it would take at least four hours per server to restore operations. No-one said it was possible to restore operations in five minutes or less.
These numbers are completely unacceptable.
Would you knowingly work for (or do business with) an institution where your email could be down for half a day or more? Where you wouldn't be able to access your bank account, your medical records, your voicemail, for at least four hours at any point in time? Where the IT staff didn't test their restoration process, and was only minimally confident it would work?
Yet we are all living in that world.
And until recently, IT might (might) have had an excuse. "Software is hard to install and configure." "Hardware isn't easily procured, and it's often just different enough to make the software images incompatible." "Networking and storage connectivity is a nightmare to reconfigure." And so on.
But Scalent does away with those issues.
As we discuss in our recorded webinar, "From Dead Bare Metal to Live Networked Servers… in Five Minutes or Less", it is now possible to install software to create an adaptive infrastructure: an infrastructure which overcomes the traditional hardware, software, and connectivity limitations, so that any failed server and applications connected to any network linked to any storage can be brought back in the space of boot time.
We're not just talking about this concept - we're living it. (Or, as the phrase goes, "We're eating our own dogfood"). All of our corporate IT systems, from our Linux Apache webservers to our Microsoft Exchange email to our Sun Solaris SPARC test systems, are all running in an environment managed by the latest shipping version of Scalent V/OE.
So what are you waiting for? Give us a shout. We'll show you. Until then, I hope you're not in that "minimally confident" 67% (and if you are, good luck).
-- Kevin Epstein, VP Marketing, January 2007
This survey, given to over 500 IT professionals of director-level or higher, was designed to examine prevailing attitudes towards virtualization, server failover, and management technologies in the enterprise data center.
We were shocked by some of the results - most specifically, by the results around Disaster Recovery and Server Failover.
According to our survey, 89% of these respondents (who include many of the world's leading organizations) test their DR recovery abilities only once a year... or less.
Almost 2/3 of the respondents stated that they were "minimally confident" that their systems would actually work as planned in the event of a real emergency.
70% said it would take at least four hours per server to restore operations. No-one said it was possible to restore operations in five minutes or less.
These numbers are completely unacceptable.
Would you knowingly work for (or do business with) an institution where your email could be down for half a day or more? Where you wouldn't be able to access your bank account, your medical records, your voicemail, for at least four hours at any point in time? Where the IT staff didn't test their restoration process, and was only minimally confident it would work?
Yet we are all living in that world.
And until recently, IT might (might) have had an excuse. "Software is hard to install and configure." "Hardware isn't easily procured, and it's often just different enough to make the software images incompatible." "Networking and storage connectivity is a nightmare to reconfigure." And so on.
But Scalent does away with those issues.
As we discuss in our recorded webinar, "From Dead Bare Metal to Live Networked Servers… in Five Minutes or Less", it is now possible to install software to create an adaptive infrastructure: an infrastructure which overcomes the traditional hardware, software, and connectivity limitations, so that any failed server and applications connected to any network linked to any storage can be brought back in the space of boot time.
We're not just talking about this concept - we're living it. (Or, as the phrase goes, "We're eating our own dogfood"). All of our corporate IT systems, from our Linux Apache webservers to our Microsoft Exchange email to our Sun Solaris SPARC test systems, are all running in an environment managed by the latest shipping version of Scalent V/OE.
So what are you waiting for? Give us a shout. We'll show you. Until then, I hope you're not in that "minimally confident" 67% (and if you are, good luck).
-- Kevin Epstein, VP Marketing, January 2007
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