Today’s business operations are in highly threatened stages as virus attacks may damage the whole business process. The business operations need to be prepared for any type of attacks like natural disasters, human error or cyber virus attacks to safeguard the business' IT infrastructure and applications. It’s estimated that top companies like IBM, Oracle, and Cisco experienced the treat of loss of digital data and discontinuity in the business IT infrastructure in the past two years. Even though the business operations are well -equipped with disaster recovery solutions, the technology so far developed is not enough to protect long-standing digital data.

Disaster Recovery Occurrences

The reliance of disaster recovery plans via cloud computing and virtual technology is trending over the years. This brings significant effects to the business process to withstand the unexpected causes and consequences of digital data transfers. This makes a difference for businesses to do faster, more flexible and quick system upgrading. The changes happening that may not reflect in programs that are unaccounted for. The components that account for the process of critical business applications that remain uncounted during the process may reflects as a clear track for disaster.

Virtualization in Disaster Recovery

Virtualization in disaster recovery grades to a newer level to manage using individual hardware options. Its introduction in the processes visualizes a great range of positive effects. Virtual Machines are introduced in the the IT and keep on introducing new VM’s. The virtual environment balances the dynamic workload that thus protects application levels of hardware operations. The constant changes in the infrastructure may result in the failure of accomplishing a sudden disaster recovery plan to work out on time. Its found that most organizations are not prepared enough to address an unexpected threat.

IT Vs Business in Disaster Recovery

Even though IT and business are two different faces of the coin. Businesses don't bother to think much about the possible hazards that could happen to the applications and expects safety with IT. During the current years, IT has driven up to manage new remote site services and storages, but are not much confident about the components availability and requirement thus making it difficult to overcome situations. Its evident in some organization of the gap between IT and business in time of Outages. Factors that reflects to difficulty in Outages:

Less understanding of IT maps to business services. Even Though the IT supports have insights on the availability of servers, this is not useful incase of administrators don’t have knowledge on the specific business services and servers.

Random infrastructure changes results to meet service levels. Less understanding of the drawbacks in virtualization may lead harder to keep DR plans in action to the ever-evolving infrastructure.

Future DR

To keep pace with the evolving data center, business continuity and disaster recovery needs to not only focus on the infrastructure, but also start looking at how that infrastructure maps back to the business.