Aren’t there lots of other IT DR services based on virtualisation?
Virtualisation is certainly the buzzword of the moment, and because it offers some significant advantages for disaster recovery there are a few products have been launched onto the market recently that use virtualisation in one form or another. However, all the other offerings that use virtualisation effectively are all products which a customer must buy and use to produce their own disaster recovery provision, and are therefore the customers responsibility to make work in the event of a disaster. There are also a few which simply use virtualisation to provide a quick and easy way of provisioning a new machine, but with no effort made to have working images of systems in advance of a disaster. With these types of solutions all the hard work starts while you are in the middle of a crisis. The Plan B DR service uses virtualisation to simplify, automate and radically change the cost structure of a disaster recovery provision. Ours is a fully managed service that needs no customer interven
