Traditional disaster recovery solutions do not always meet
organizations’ need for reduced recovery times and improved
reliability. They are slow to recover, complex to implement,
and hard to manage. They require the completion of separate
procedures for systems, data disks, and applications—to
say nothing of separate procedures for physical and virtual
servers. No wonder then that chief information offirs and
IT managers increasingly look to cloud-based recovery—
either on its own or as a complement to traditional disaster
recovery methods—to help them meet the needs for nearly
instantaneous failover and failback