How to improve disaster recovery for the enterprise

Today's distributed and dynamic enterprises rely increasingly on 24x7 access to a growing set of mission-critical business applications and sensitive data. These applications and data are more distributed than ever: they can reside in corporate datacenters, remote offices, and/or on user computers. In addition, overall data volumes are growing rapidly in every industry segment, and widespread virtualisation means that servers and data are more mobile than ever before.

Moreover, IT operations teams are struggling with flat or shrinking budgets in a tough economy. These combined challenges make disaster recovery planning more difficult than it has been in the past, but they also make it more important than ever.