Virtualisation & Disaster Recovery

Making your IT infrastructure a combination of physical hardware and virtual, aids in not just cost reduction, but helps your organization deploy infrastructure elements quickly and keep applications up and running more efficiently.

Virtualization is an abstraction layer that allows multiple virtual machines, with heterogeneous operating systems to run in isolation, side-by-side on the same physical machine. By decoupling the physical hardware from the operating system, virtualization allows you to:

• Run multiple virtual machines with heterogeneous operating systems at the same time on the same physical machine
• Create fully configured isolated virtual machines with it's own set of virtual hardware to run an operating system and applications
• Rapidly save, copy and provision virtual machines that can be moved from one physical server to another for workload consolidation and zero downtime maintenance

Why VMware?
Maintain your company’s competitive edge by choosing the best virtualization infrastructure solution that meets your business requirements today – and can grow with your business tomorrow. VMware, as the world's leading desktop and datacenter virtualization provider, offers the best and most trusted solutions for transforming today’s often inflexible IT environment into a flexible, automated cloud infrastructure, helping you reap cost savings and productivity benefits.

Disaster Recovery Overview
These days organisations are very dependent on their IT infrastructure to support their business processes and deliver competitive advantage. If a disaster affects their ability to operate the IT infrastructure, business processes stop, and they lose valuable time and market share. Research shows they may even go out of business.

A disaster may be anything that results in inability to access to the IT infrastructure, e.g. fire, burst water pipes, gas leaks, accidents causing serious injury, storms or damage to adjacent property. It may even be a serious corruption of a database. The result is the same – failure to operate the IT infrastructure to support the critical business processes.

Whether you are a small, medium or enterprise company, Total Computer Technology recommends having a viable Disaster Recovery Plan in place.