Invest now or pay later: The imperative of business continuity (page 2 of 2)

But the ultimate goal is to get applications up and running at the recovery site. VERITAS Global Cluster Manager marries data replication and clustering to create an effective site migration or failover solution, enabling you to recover critical operations in just minutes in case of a disaster. The one-click control in VERITAS Global Cluster Manager lets you launch predefined failover and migration policies, minimizing the threat of human error during the application recovery process.


From Any Hardware to Any Hardware
VERITAS solutions offer another significant advantage: heterogeneity. Rather than forcing you to adopt a particular platform, VERITAS software products work across all major operating systems. They support a broad range of storage hardware, from simple JBOD ("just a bunch of disks") to the most high-end, intelligent array.

And they're compatible with all top-tier applications. VERITAS solutions can even support customized homegrown software solutions. This heterogeneity gives you the flexibility to deploy any hardware and any application on any platform so you can architect the solution that best fits the needs of your enterprise.

As it relates to your business continuity plan, VERITAS' heterogeneity means that you can replicate data from one place to another even if the different locations have different hardware configurations. This ensures your flexibility — which is critical during the uncertainty of disaster recovery — at a lower total cost to the enterprise.

Business As Usual
"High availability plans and data protection strategies are no longer optional; they are absolute necessities to businesses of any size," says Valdez. "That is why VERITAS is so passionately committed to providing reliable business continuity solutions."

If you're part of an enterprise-caliber IT department and you're responsible for the continuing operation of business-critical IT systems, then you absolutely need a solution to protect against the entire spectrum of threats to data and application availability — from simple hardware component failures through site-wide disasters. VERITAS provides solutions for high availability and data protection to help you keep your business running as usual.