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•Contributing Editorial: The Unpleasant Trade-Offs Of Enterprise Business Continuity

By Jerome M. Wendt, DCIG LLC

Anyone who is any way involved with trying to implement an enterprise business continuity solution probably knows all too well the compromises they frequently have to make. As enterprise companies try to centralize and deliver enterprise data protection and business continuity across all of their application servers, they are consistently faced with an unpleasant trade-off:

• Spend a fortune and do your best to guarantee high availability, protection and immediate recoveries for your company's mission critical application servers but then leave the rest of your enterprise's applications with a mish-mash of data protection and recovery solutions that may or may not work
• Create a standard, more affordable method way to protect all of your company's application servers but then fail to deliver an application recovery mechanism that delivers the level of data protection or recovery that matches the varying requirements of individual applications

The outcome of trying to balance these conflicting priorities of high availability and immediate recoveries versus providing affordable data protection creates a zero-sum game for companies. No matter which application need they are trying to meet, they end up robbing from Peter to pay Paul because they can't put their finger on an application that provides enterprise-wide business continuity.

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•Contributing Editorial: The Unpleasant Trade-Offs Of Enterprise Business Continuity