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Learning VMware vCloud Air

By : Yohan Wadia
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Learning VMware vCloud Air

By: Yohan Wadia

Overview of this book

This book is intended for cloud engineers or administrators who wish to explore and gain hands-on experience of VMware vCloud Air. To make the most of this book, it would be beneficial to have a bit of familiarity with basic VMware vCloud concepts, but no prior experience is required.
Table of Contents (8 chapters)
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Index

The importance of business continuity and disaster recovery

Unforeseen events such as natural disasters and calamities can bring the entire operations of an organization to a complete standstill. It is at this time that the Organization has to recover its day-to-day operations as quickly as possible and continue to provide services to their clients. Having a well-formed and tested business continuity and disaster recovery plan is an integral part of any organization's risk assessment and management.

Note

53 percent of the organizations can tolerate less than an hour of downtime before they experience a significant revenue loss or other adverse business impact, according to the ESG Research Review Data Protection Survey from the Enterprise Strategy Group.

Let's first try and understand the difference between disaster recovery and business continuity. Although both the terms are used quite often and interchangeably, they both are quite different from one another and their uses can...