Marathon Technologies today announced that a new research report from leading analyst firm Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG) identifies both the potential of server virtualization for enhanced business resiliency and the additional steps recommended to realize that potential. In the report titled "Business Resilience in Virtualized Environments," analysts Mark Bowker and Lauren Whitehouse explain:

• The advantages and challenges of server virtualization for improved business resiliency
• The limitations of the virtualization platform vendor's offerings for HA and DR
• Misconceptions about common business resiliency terms such as high availability, fault tolerance and disaster recovery
• How to use a combination of third-party solutions and new processes such as Virtual to Virtual (V2V), Physical to Virtual (P2V), Virtual to Physical (V2P) and Virtual to Cloud (V2C) to meet application Service Level Agreements (SLAs)
     

Marathon is making the full report available for a limited time here.

"As we've highlighted in the report, server virtualization offers the promise of improved application availability and faster disaster recovery," said Mark Bowker, analyst, Enterprise Strategy Group. "But to achieve that promise, organizations need to modify their existing processes. They also need to keep in mind that while server virtualization can be a powerful enabler for better high availability and disaster recovery, the virtualization platform alone isn't enough to meet the requirements of all workloads. In many instances they'll need to implement additional third-party technology to match or improve their committed SLAs."

For more details, please download the report from Marathon here.