The reason behind this choice can be traced to 2009, when Tü– Rheinland in Japan began carrying out manual disaster recovery planning and processes.

"This consumed a considerable amount of time and resources, and diverted their IT workers from important projects and maintenance tasks," Shinohara said.

"This was particularly evident during annual disaster recovery testing, when the company had to inform users in advance of a system shutdown and conduct testing on the weekends." That was why Tü– Rheinland decided to implement an automated disaster recovery solution such as VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager, which it decided to share between its Yokohama headquarters and its secondary datacenter in Osaka.

"What Tü– Rheinland told us was that VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager was the 'exact embodiment' of what they believed disaster recovery planning should be," Shinohara said.

There are numerous disaster recovery solutions on the market, but once VMware explained to Tü– Rheinland how vCenter Site Recovery Manager's automatic failover makes DR simple and reliable, the German company decided to adopt it.