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Understanding Virtualization and Disaster Recovery

January 25th, 2011 Web Hosting

The rise in natural calamities has fruitfully triggered the alert sense of technology executives who are now searching for innovative ways to deal with disaster recovery in a cost effective way, as disaster recovery itself has been an expensive venture. Latest technologies are being learned in order to deal with systems and data effectively, if in case they have to face a natural calamity.

There has been an ongoing interest for maintaining a stable flow of productivity even if there are power outage issues, and DR resources are being learned and implemented to ensure that no business suffers a loss even if it means a high alert emergency. One vital method of disaster recovery is virtualization. This is a process where data is not kept dependent on physical layers; rather it is transported to a virtualized layer that can be accessed from anywhere, anytime. When enterprises will use virtualized servers, they will not only be saving on energy and cost, but can also divert their productivity towards data wellbeing, data access and data balance.

Disaster recovery in the form of virtualization is currently a hot topic that is taking the server client by storm. Web hosting service providers are gradually taking on the concept of virtualization, cloud computing and are struggling hard to consolidate their multiple physical servers into multiple virtual servers, but utilizing only one physical device. Instead of having say, 50 servers, you can now have only 10 servers, hosting 50 virtual servers! It doesn’t mean that virtualization doesn’t need a physical interface. It obviously does, when you have to use a computer with an internet connection to get access to that virtualized server. Though, virtualization is meant to enhance data performance and to save on the unnecessary energy that is consumed by heavy load physical servers. When a website will be hosted on multiple virtual servers, it will not have to face any physical loss of data if in some way one server goes down. Initially, if a physical server goes down, the site would lose a high rate of productivity, which is why virtualization comes as a data rescue option.

Also with this technology in hand, there will be a larger number of freelance workers, who can work from the comfort of their home, without having to travel to and fro to their workplace. Though this technology is brilliant to say, currently there are only 37% of servers that have been fruitfully virtualized. Though public have accepted this technology, it will take time and effort for server owners to consolidate their servers. There is only one interest with virtualization that very soon will be dealt with effectively, and that is of data integrity. Companies dread for the safety and confidentiality of the data that would be easily accessed, provided a name knew the login process. If DR technology and virtualization is allowed to progress further, this flaw can be eliminated in a very small time period.

It’s time that webmasters step out of their temporary comfort zone and take a step forward to protect their data, without having to be entirely dependent on physical diplomacy. Though physical diplomacy cannot be completely eliminated, their minimal use would verify to be very beneficial for all.