Disaster Recovery for critical applications is an important part of any Business Continuity Plan. Most, if not all, IBM Power servers, host mission-critical applications and the need for a standby server at a secondary location is essential for an effective disaster recovery plan. With the introduction of cloud-based POWER servers it has become much easier and more cost effective to have a standby server at a remote location. The customer does not need to purchase a server with idle capacity and host it in a remote datacenter to achieve their DR goals.

As the new year approaches, I wondered where CIOs would focus their IT resources in 2015 to make a positive impact on their business. I came across this article by Janco Associates where six out of the ten top CIO issues have a direct impact on IT infrastructure provisioning which is at the heart of today’s blog.