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October 5, 2007 Maximizing Data Center Investments For Disaster Recovery And Business Resiliency by Stephanie Balaouras, Galen Schreck with Simon Yates, Walid Saleh	Average: 9  (8 ratings)

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Executive Summary

Building a data center is a massive investment. It requires investment in real estate, reinforced facilities, raised floors, state-of-the art power and cooling, and IT infrastructure such as networks, servers, and storage — not to mention the experienced data center staff to manage it all. Firms build new data centers for a variety of reasons: capacity limitations, modernization, consolidation, and many others. But firms also need an alternate data center that's an appropriate distance away so they can failover critical business operations in the event of a primary site failure. Given the necessary investment, an alternate data center simply can't remain idle waiting for some disaster to occur. Firms must determine ways to maximize this investment to improve business operations, accelerate growth, or elevate availability.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

• DR Is A Fundamental Consideration In Data Center Design And Build-Out
• Evolving To Active-Active Data Center Site Configurations
• Enabling Disaster Recovery Technologies

RECOMMENDATIONS

• Don't Plan Your Next Data Center Move Without A DR Plan
• Supplemental Material
• Related Research Documents

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