Business Continuity Solutions Minimising server downtime is always a balance of cost of implementation and support against tolerance to disruption and attitude to risk. help4IT can help you identify risk levels and use virtualisation to break the bond between the operating system and the underlying hardware.



Virtualisation is an enabling technology that not only can be used to help lower costs and simplify the IT infrastructure but may also be used to extend business continuity planning to smaller businesses who could not previously justify the expense. Using virtualisation, complete environments including operating systems and applications are encapsulated in virtual machines that are independent from hardware. In this way the virtual machine can be moved seamlessly from one physical machine to another whether as part of planned maintenance or physical server failure. A collection of physical servers can therefore be turned into a single pool of processing, storage and networking power to be allocated and deallocated on the fly. In a virtual infrastructure, users see resources as if they were dedicated to them, while the administrator manages and optimises resources globally across the business unit.