Data Center Consolidation Impacts DRP and BCP
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planning are impacted by Data Center consolidation that centralizes productivity
applications. As enterprises reduce the overall number of data centers,
consolidating remote and branch office assets in the process Disaster Recovery
and Business Continuity become more critical. According to an international
research firm, 41% of large organizations have consolidated most IT assets in
corporate data centers, while another 34% have consolidated some assets in
corporate data centers.
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face=Calibri>While this has given IT greater operational control and lower
costs, it also can lead to increased risk. Each remote site that accesses the
centralized data center creates a potential point of failure. If the new
centralized location were to fail, all the applications and services housed
therein would be unavailable and its impact – as measured in lost productivity
and revenue – could be far greater.
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