Backing up databases and applications always is critically important. Still I can’t help but think that companies moving towards continuous availability solutions. For example, EMC has several different flavors of VPLEX for architecting continuous availability solutions. Using VPLEX Metro with Extended Oracle RAC is a solution that offers business the ability to keep the database and applications running even with the loss of a datacenter.

But this is my question: Do you see a trend or perhaps pressure to architect continuous availability solutions for your business?