In an around-the clock business world, organizations need
nearly instantaneous failover and failback of critical business
applications. Disasters, and, more often, disruptions, do occur.
Hurricanes, tsunamis, floods and fires are to be feared and
accounted for in enterprise business continuity and disaster
recovery plans. However, organizations must also prepare for
the far more likely event of disruptions—the hardware failures,
security breaches and run-of-the-mill power outages that can
compromise access to business-critical applications.