Worldwide, server downtime costs organizations billions of dollars each year—with IDC estimating damages at a whopping $140 billion last year. Take a moment to dissect those billions, actually looking at the different elements in play that cause both planned and unplanned downtime—such as the growing popularity of virtualization, the strict regulatory environment, the recent slew of powerful hurricanes and other natural disasters, and the constant threat of hackers and identity thieves—and it’s enough to keep any level-headed data center manager up all night.
Fortunately, there are ways to help. But, with so many different business continuity and disaster recovery options out there, where do you begin? Data replication is a great launching pad. In a recently published Enterprise Systems Journal article, SteelEye SVP Bob Williamson examined the powerful role that data replication plays in risk management strategies. Your business, be it large or small, has a unique set of network requirements. It’s imperative to take a good look at the rate of change of data across your network, your existing hardware and platform configurations, and most importantly, your budget before selecting a replication solution.
At SteelEye, we’re simplifying data replication, offering various solutions that meet the unique needs of businesses with varying network bandwidth, server environments and budgets. We’re working with well-known technology partners like Microsoft, Citrix, VMWare and others to accommodate physical and virtual data centers that seamlessly blend numerous products from numerous vendors. We’re offering solutions that extend replication capabilities incrementally for organizations with differing network requirements and IT spending habits. SteelEye gives large and small companies an easy way to implement affordable, yet comprehensive, business continuity and disaster recovery solutions.
