Veeam - Moving to Modern Data Protection
Veeam Software have today announced a new campaign to help organisations make the move to Modern Data Protection. According to Gartner, by 2016, one-third of organisations will change backup vendors due to frustrations over cost, complexity or capability. At the same time, Gartner reports that server virtualisation is now over 60% penetrated and on the way to surpass 80%. Veeam’s Modern Data Protection solution – a powerful, easy-to-use and affordable solution Built for virtualisation – sits at the junction of these two industry trends.
Most backup tools were built for the physical environment, and this limits how they support virtual deployments; they struggle to leverage the virtual environment to verify backups, and they require agents in virtual machines for granular recovery, application-consistent backups and other essential functions.
Findings from Veeam’s annual Virtualisation Data Protection Report, released yesterday, illustrate how physical backup has created significant challenges for IT in an increasingly virtualised world. The report states that 88% of IT Directors identified capability-related challenges that are impacting their ability to backup and recover their virtual infrastructures, and that 84% said that they are experiencing complexity-related challenges with backup and recovery of virtual environments. Furthermore, 87% are also facing cost-related challenges with backup and recovery of virtual servers beyond those costs already incurred by lengthy downtime.
To help IT Managers get up to speed with the key concepts of modern data protection, Veeam have produced a series of materials which you can download below:
- 5 Fundamentals of Modern Data Protection, a white paper titled by David Davis, VMware vExpert and best-selling author
- An independent lab review of Veeam Backup & Replication by IT analyst firm ESG
- A 10-point comparison of Veeam Backup & Replication versus physical backup tools