

Unfortunately, there is nothing glamorous about backup, and it is often relegated as an afterthought compared to the novelty of a new environment. In my experience talking with customers who are creating a new virtual environment, one of the frequently overlooked components of the environment is backup. With the advent of cloud computing, your hardware footprint could in fact be zero! However, despite the technology making our lives so much easier, it’s important to consider that our responsibility for these workloads remains the same. What was once sprawling racks of servers has been consolidated into ever-smaller hardware packages. While we may all be familiar with virtualization at this point, we are still feeling its significant impact on our data centers.
