Virtualising a datacentre can make it more flexible, but it also introduces new points of failure and it doesn't remove the need for critical servers to be duplicated for fail-over, disaster recovery (DR) specialist Neverfail has warned.
The warning came as replication and DR companies lined up to promise support for Microsoft's Hyper-V server virtualisation technology, which was formally launched today, along with a companion management tool, Microsoft System Centre Virtual Machine Manager 2008.
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