This document summarizes the need for disaster recovery and how cloud computing can help address that need. It discusses how downtime from disasters costs businesses billions annually. More companies now prioritize improving disaster recovery capabilities. Traditional approaches like backups and duplicate infrastructure are costly and complex. Virtualization allows workloads to be replicated to virtual machines in the cloud for fast recovery. PlateSpin Protect and Forge products help businesses replicate workloads to hosted virtual recovery hosts in the cloud, enabling one-click testing and recovery of workloads within minutes in the event of a disaster.