For many organizations, automating failover from primary datacenters or sites to secondary locations is a critical component to any disaster recovery or business continuity solution for a variety of reasons. While one reason could be that it reduces manual workload, especially during a crisis when anxiety levels are high, the primary reason is often the fact that automation never forgets, and is faster to respond. By reliably monitoring infrastructure, automated failover mechanisms can detect outages and make essential changes that bring mission-critical applications back online quickly. With profit margins and brand reputations on the line, small businesses and large enterprises alike must recognize the importance of ensuring maximum availability for all critical applications.