Local business continuity players see virtualisation as an important technology for the future of the industry.
This emerged the Oracle business continuity forum hosted by Oracle and ITWeb in Sandton last week.
"In terms of disaster recovery, documentation of virtualised networks happens by virtue of the virtualisation itself," says Danny de Beer, business development director at Fujitsu-Siemens.
He says this is one of the primary advantages of a virtualised network: "Auditors who need a test to prove that DR strategies work, can now verify this."
De Beer says these networks also lower costs because virtualisation reduces the investment a company needs to make in assets that are not productive.
Barb Lundhild, Oracle Groups principle product manager agrees: "In the past, whenever a new application was needed, a new server was added, resulting in under-utilised resources."
She says virtualisation is key because it enables more efficient load balancing across grid architecture.
De Beer says companies need to move away from a server-centric to a service-centric system.
"Networks used to be 70% witchcraft and 30% craft, but networks are now becoming more agile," he says.
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