In the old days, building and maintaining a backup site for disaster recovery was financially impossible for all but the most critcial of network services. Buying and managing duplicate servers in a redundant site that did little until the big event hit was a huge expense and management headache.

But with today replication software, especially when combined with virtualization, in many ways these roadblocks go away. In today's podcast we'll talk with Bob Roudebush of DoubleTake software. We'll discuss today's technology in server and data replication, how virtualization drastically changes the playing field for disaster recovery options, and the specific issues associated with replicating transactional databases like SQL, Exchange, and Active Directory Domain Controllers.

If you're considering the implementation of a disaster recovery site in your network environment, you'll want to spend 18 minutes with us to learn some tips and tricks to do it successfully.