Friday, January 17, 2014

Enterprise backup embraces VMs and cloud, but lags on mobile

<p>We live in an age of virtualisation, of rapidly proliferating devices and the growth of thecloud. From the point of view of enterprisebackup that means many more sources of data and more potential targets.</p><p>Backup software follows,rather than leads, such developments. In the five enterprisebackup software products surveyed here, tighter integration with hypervisors is aclear trend, with the ability to manage backups, restores and other operations from VMware a newfeature in many of these products.</p><p>This tighter integration goes further in some cases in Symantec NetBackup, for example byleveraging VMware's changed blocktracking to cut the time it takes to create a system image.</p><p>Meanwhile, in all the products Computer Weekly focuses on here, new versions released in 2013have added or boosted support for the cloud.</p><p><a href="http://www.computerweekly.com/feature/Enterprise-backup-embraces-VMs-and-cloud-but-lags-on-mobile">Keep reading...</a></p>

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