Implementing disaster recovery plans for important IT services is a requirement for organizations today. However, most organizations find themselves unable to implement a disaster recovery plan that fully meets their needs for more than, at best, a select few applications due to a number of challenges including the following:

• The cost of traditional solutions is often prohibitive, forcing organizations to limit what they protect and how well they protect it.
• The complexity of traditional disaster recovery limits the ability of IT staff to implement and manage disaster recovery plans for more than a few applications.

To address these challenges, organizations are turning to virtualization solutions for disaster recovery. VMware virtualization software delivers unique capabilities that are enabling organizations to deliver practical disaster recovery solutions that deliver improved protection across a far greater set of IT services while reducing the cost and complexity of disaster recovery.