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Slide 1: Data Center Virtualization- Business continuity solutions The main objective of any organization is to maintain business continuity. This is the vital ingredient in the survival of an organization. To achieve this the operations of any organizations needs to be running 24/7. In a globalized business scenario with a number of offices spread across various geographical boundaries, this seems quite a Herculean task to ensure all the offices are working perfectly and running at all times. The solution to beat this is to have data centers established across the various locations with replicated application and data. But this would result in geographical redundancy and non-performing assets. Virtualizing these data centers and the resources can change the scenario of a non-performing asset into one that will function in a distributed manner. This would lead to achieving maximum reliability and performance irrespective of the location of the data centre. Such data centers can be used for data replication, upgrades and maintenance. The concept of application virtualization and server virtualization works out as a cost effective option. However, before stepping ahead to virtualization of the data center one needs to look into certain aspects such as, the architecture its capacity for data transfer, the feasibility of using application virtualization and network virtualization for the data to be replicated in real-time mode as well as virtualization of redundant sites. But now the question lies is all these efforts beneficial? Looking at it from the architectural point of view, the re a number of benefits in virtualizing the resources. With better use of the available infrastructure and its nearly 100% availability paves way for operational efficiency and management. Further in event of performing an ongoing maintenance program for the data centers, this can be cleverly done with the help of intelligent DNS system. Most of the smaller organization or SME’s, start with application virtualization or clustering. Other go in for a combined efforts of server and application virtualization. On the other hand large conglomerates with a deeper insight into the benefits of data centre virtualization have implemented principles virtualization in networking topology and access to the data and information. Network virtualization is possible both in a local area network as well as the wide area network. Whether its virtualization of the network or data centre virtualization, it brings about higher utilization of the available resources, security of the data and information and efficiency in management of the information flow across geographical boundaries. Also read on -Remote desktop access, Application acceleration