When major outages occur, many businesses can't afford to wait several days for conventional recovery solutions. Long work delays and loss of critical data can quickly affect revenues, profits, and customer satisfaction. While conventional disaster recovery solutions often rely on human intervention to get the business up and running, they can leave businesses down for hours and sometimes days.HPE Metrocluster reduces business downtime to minutes in the event of a fault, failure, or disaster. By acting as a safety net for critical data and applications in metropolitan data centers, HPE Metrocluster not only increases the level of protection from disasters - it also turns the business continuity infrastructure into a productive asset that can be used for day-to-day operations. This means that your business continuity infrastructure can also be used for planned downtime activities, such as upgrading applications and adding and deleting nodes in the cluster.