Historically only larger organizations could afford the most robust solutions to minimize business disruption. However, that situation is rapidly changing due to the growing adoption of virtualization by both large enterprises and small to medium-sized organizations.

"Virtualization offers a solution to the problem by enabling organizations to partition a single physical server into multiple logical servers, each one running its own workload and/or operating system on a dedicated virtual machine (VM). With virtualization, a single server can do the work that had previously been performed by four or more servers. Leading analysts estimate server virtualization increases system utilization rates up to 85%.

Virtualization also enables organizations to run older applications and operating systems on newer hardware, thereby avoiding the maintenance issues associated with unsupported, obsolete hardware. As a result, virtualization has been embraced enthusiastically by enterprises of all sizes and continues to grow rapidly. According to studies, as many as 95% of data centers…"