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In a recent survey of more than 500 senior IT professionals conducted for data center software solutions provider Scalent Systems (www.scalent.com), nearly 90% of respondents said that lack of updated testing of their disaster recorery plan leaves them vulnerable to catastrophic failures in the event of another 9/11-type scenario.
The survey, overseen by Brilliant Ideas LLC (www.brilliantideas.net), found that most companies test their disaster recovery systems only once a year or less, while 70% indicated that it would take at least a half-day (and 50% said multiple days) for their servers to recover completely from failure, including restored software, configuration, and network and storage cabling and connectivity.
“Companies every day face a variety of threats that could bring their systems down,” says John Humphreys, program director at IDC Research (www.idc.com). “Even companies that don’t rely on their infrastructure for high-volume business transactions should recognize that slow recovery in the event of a disaster can seriously impact customers, employees, and shareholder value.”
The survey’s bad-news results could be good news for Scalant, which specializes in data center disaster recovery solutions. Its software is designed to encapsulate each existing server’s software stack, placing it on central storage, and then virtualizing the network and storage connectivity of each physical server so that any server (or set) can appear to be any others on the network. If any physical server fails, any other server can be “turned into” the failed server in the time it takes to reboot.
Calling it a “rack once, cable once” solution, Scalant says there is no need for manual re-imaging or re-cabling, and the replacement server becomes an exact duplicate of the original, thereby eliminating configuration issues.
Cabling Installation & Maintenance May, 2007
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