Q: What needs does the business have for business continuity and disaster recovery?
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Martin MacLeod is an IT consultant based in London with several years' experience deploying and supporting blade servers in volume. He also blogs at bladewatch.com, where he tracks news on blade servers, grids and virtualization. Listen to the rest of Martin's answers on blade server virtualization by downloading our blade server virtualization podcast.
Customers should be asking how they can provide a business solution with some degree of disaster recovery. If I have to shut my office down or that part of the network down, how does that impact the bigger picture from a service delivery standpoint? We need to have the network with a SAN available to different blades, whether it's in one data center or another, so that we can have tools like VMotion to enable us to continue in the event of a disaster.
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