No matter the size of your organization or the nature of your workloads, protecting IT assets in the event of hardware failure or other operational interruption is core to responsible management. However, outside of business-critical applications, backup solutions have been the only affordable options to protect most virtual machines (VMs). When a crisis happens, recovery from backup can result in days or even weeks of downtime — particularly if new hardware must be purchased or backup testing was not systematic.
With tight deadlines and expensive personnel, the loss of even a few VMs can have productivity losses in the tens of thousands of dollars or more. And traditional disaster recovery (DR) and business continuity (BC) solutions — whether on-premise or at a service provider — have been extremely expensive, implementation complex, and testing and maintenance is too labor-intensive to justify. Companies need to provide continuous protection without added complexity, quick recovery without spare hardware, easy implementation without special skills, continuous testing without significant effort, manageability without another console, and the affordability of basic backup. Enter hybrid IT.