One day, Todd Erickson had a crisis that every information technology director has nightmares about. It was 3:30 in the afternoon and Erickson’s information technology department at the First Flight Federal Credit Union, a financial services company in North Carolina, was doing some routine maintenance. Suddenly the lights went out. For about 30 seconds, 500 servers at the credit union lost connectivity to a storage device. “That was near catastrophic,” Erickson told Stephen J. Bigelow of Tech Target. Bigelow wrote the original story about Erickson’s kerfuffle on the TechTarget Inc., website. Imagine 30 seconds of no files, no software downloads, nothing. Erickson’s episode is a prime example why companies moving to virtual machines need to have VMware Data Recovery. Data loss can be unexpected, unexplained and unavoidable. Protection of data will always be necessary.

VMware Data Recovery Prohibits Downtime

The cost of technology downtime is difficult to compute and it also varies by industry. But the cost of technology interrupting is well documented. According to the National Archives and Records Administration, 93 percent of companies that lost data for just 10 days filed for bankruptcy within a year of that data loss. A full 50 percent of all organizations that lost an information technology manager for 10 days also filed for bankruptcy. Add to that the various estimates of an hour of computer downtime costing a company as little as $50,000 up to $1 million an hour (depending upon the industry and the size of the company), and you have a pretty convincing case for data protection. But while corporation have a data protection plan for its physical data stored on hard drives and desktops, they have scant paid attention to create a data protection plan for their virtual machines. The advent of virtual machine software has been hailed as the wave of the future. But preventing data loss is one of these taboo subjects that many information technology directors know they must not only broach but solve.

VMware Data Recovery Offers Solution to Downtime

There are plenty of ways you can back up the data on your virtual machines. You double up, hosting your virtual machines on different servers, but then that may affect your notion to save space by hosting virtual machines in the first place. One of the best methods of preventing data loss is to use the VMware Data Recovery tools that will allow you to back up the data on your virtual machines without introducing redundancies.