2. Innovations for high speed recovery. New technologies allow recovering data with much higher speed and frequency than when using traditional methods (up to 100 times faster). Therefore, virtual machines installed on one server will always have up-to-date backup copies.
3. Recovering to any platform. To guarantee permanent availability of information for any system it is often required to recover data with high speed and frequency and to a different platform. Such possibility allows in the event of failure of a particular system to switch its work load and recover data to any combination of available platforms from a malfunctioning system to virtual machine replica or virtual machine launched directly from backup copy. Such function is applicable to physical servers VMware, Hyper-V, Xen Server, RHEV, KVM and any other.
4. Practically zero downtime time at affordable price. Previously it took several hours to solve a problem. Today, no company can afford such luxury. A company has to revive its business-processes in full within several minutes and without immense expenses for SAN-based redundant storage and replication.
5. Simple migration. The solution that allows migration between physical and virtual machines either way and guarantees the most effective use of available resources and protects against data loss – that is a common issue during migration.
6. Less complexity. Think of advantages of using same backup solutions and policies for all physical and virtual systems. Such approach will make data management much easier, reduce risks and ensure higher information security. When using integrated solutions you won’t have to lose sleep over patches for focused software.
7. Solutions for future. You will need such a technology that not only will serve current tasks but will also be helpful and allow using all advantages of the next wave of virtualization.