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Embracing virtualization helps cut costs, but will it lead to trouble when there's a massive systems failure?

As enterprises virtualize their data centers to cut costs and consolidate their servers, they may be setting themselves for big trouble. According to the latest disaster recovery research report from Symantec (NASDAQ: SYMC), based on surveys of 1000 IT managers in large organizations worldwide, 35 percent of an organization's virtual servers are not included in its disaster recovery (DR) (define) plans. Worse yet, not all virtual servers included in an organization's DR plan will be backed up. Only 37 percent of respondents to the survey said they back up more than 90 percent of their virtual systems. When companies virtualize, they need to overhaul their backup and DR plans; the survey found that 64 percent of organizations are doing so. RELATED ARTICLES VMware Enters Replication Arena ManageIQ Extends Enterprise VM Management Big Bucks Lure New Blood in Virtualization Tools Virtualization Needs a New Backup Strategy For more stories on this topic: "That's no surprise, because virtualization has had a huge impact on the way enterprises do disaster recovery," Symantec senior product marketing manager for high availability and disaster recovery Dan Lamorena told InternetNews.com. So, why is it virtual servers are being left out of DR plans or, if they're included, aren't being backed up? That's because enterprise IT just does not have the right tools to back up virtual servers. The biggest... [ Read more on www.internetnews.com ]

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