Disaster recovery may get virtualisation boost

Virtual private servers play an important role in the disaster recovery plans of businesses, IT executives have claimed.

The survey by Harris Interactive found that many IT executives have deployed virtualisation in a production setting - but most have not yet used it in a disaster recovery situation.

Businesses may want to have a comprehensive disaster recovery system in place which uses virtualisation.

In the event of a main data centre going offline, virtual private servers replicated at a backup location means operations can continue running with little or no latency, the report noted.

The State of Disaster Recovery survey also found that 60 per cent of respondents have virtualisation in place as a recovery tool, should an unplanned outage occur.

Over the next two years, half of IT decision makers suggested that their firms could look into virtualisation as part of its disaster recovery plans.

Writing for Infostor, Eric Burgener, senior analyst and consultant with research and consulting firm the Taneja Group, said that virtual private servers allow smaller firms to access affordable disaster recovery solutions which previously, only larger companies could benefit from.

Written by Tim Dunton