When it comes to disaster recovery planning, storage capacity is an important consideration. Enterprises must determine if they need to augment their tradition storage technology or migrate to cloud-based storage.
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Welcome to Virtual WAN Speeds and Feeds
Where does WAN optimization and application acceleration come together with virtualization and cloud computing? Right here.
Oct 12, 2009
The Problem
Deni Connor, Principal Analyst at Storage Strategies NOW (www.ssg-now.com) has just published a Snapshot Report on accelerated WAN-based backup and disaster recovery. In the report, Deni points out that successfully executing backup and disaster recovery across a WAN can be a daunting exercise, fraught with obstacles and problems including:
- Latency
- Low Bandwidth
- Network Contention
- Out of Order Packets
- Packet loss
All of these potential issues can affect an organizations ability to meet recovery time objectives (RTO) and recovery point objectives (RPO) when performing WAN-based backup and disaster recovery.
