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Historically, deep pocketed, large enterprises have been well versed in disaster recovery (DR) and understand the severe implications for failing to implement a robust and well thought out plan. While there are certainly dozens of compelling reasons for having an outsourced hot site, it comes at a high cost.

As a result, the small- to medium-sized businesses (SMBs) have been less vigilant with their DR plans and are seemingly willing to risk a disaster tomorrow to save a penny today.

Given the spectrum of disasters that may impact a company's IT operations and the resulting grave consequences for not having a DR strategy, why are so many of these enterprises “flying blind” without an integrated data insurance policy? The reasons can be varied.

For example, concerns about the cost outlay in implementing a program can inhibit progress. It can be especially difficult when trying to “sell” a CFO on a traditionally invisible project and a return on investment (ROI) challenged project such as DR.

Also, the growing information technology (IT) talent crunch has many executives throwing in the towel on DR strategies, and allocating their precious staff time to other technology projects.

While many IT executives are adopting virtualization technology to consolidate and reduce production hardware costs, the true visionaries are utilizing virtualization for disaster recovery to help reduce recovery time objectives (RTOs). This emerging trend is aptly named virtual disaster recovery (VDR).

In fact, in its “Worldwide System Infrastructure Software 2007: Top 10 Predictions,” IDC claims that the next wave in virtualization will focus on continuity, disaster recovery and high availability.