ZDNet has an interesting article looking at how Foster’s is using virtualization for disaster recovery.
Each mobile worker has an image of their laptop computer–a copy of everything stored on that piece of hardware–stored centrally on the virtual infrastructure with this updated automatically every three hours.
This is a fascinating idea and something that would be pretty much impossible without virtualization. It’s becoming increasingly clear to me that disaster recovery is the real killer app for virtualization.
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