Business Continuity and Disaster
Recovery (BC/DR) remain to be one of the hottest topic in the IT
industry. And in the end, it’s all about the availability of the IT services
that are essential for running the business in any organization.
Although we tend to focus on the
technological challenges BC/DR brings, business continuity is actually
about how to continue the business when a big disaster strikes. This
does not only bring technical challenges, but also organizational once.
When thinking about BC/DR, the first
step is always to determine the company policy for continuing the
business (the business continuity policy, or BCP). This policy should be
defined by the higher management of an organization. The next step is
to analyze business processes that should be protected against a
disaster, the business impact analysis (BIA).
When this is all clear, it’s time to choose a recovery strategy and have a closer look at available DR solutions in the market…
And that's where WhatMatrix will come in handy.
Announcing the disaster recovery for virtual infrastructures comparison
The WhatMatrix community has launched the first edition of the disaster recovery for virtual infrastructures comparison, created by category consultant Viktor van den Berg.
This new comparison focuses on DR
options for Microsoft and VMware based virtualization platforms and
includes DR solutions from vendors like Microsoft, Veeam, VMware and
Zerto.
These solutions provide automation and/or replication options to a second, fail-over site.
Included in this new comparison are
details on licensing, hypervisor compatibility, replication and
orchestration options. For some of the solutions, different editions are
added to the comparison, enabling you to compare the different options a
single vendor provides.
But wait... there's more to come!
The team at WhatMatrix isn't going to stop here. While this first version of the disaster recovery for virtual infrastructures
comparison focuses on on-premises DR solutions, they plan to expand and add a Disaster Recovery-as-a-Service (DRaaS) solution to the comparison matrix as well.
Ready to compare? Give it a shot. Click here to get started.