Guest Column
Five Predictions For Backup Appliance Virtual Trends In 2012
By John Pearring, manager of sales, STORServer
Resellers of backup solutions are seeing increased demand from customers for a backup product that installs quickly, operates easily, includes all recovery technology in one package, and is supported by a single source. Enter the backup appliance.
Backup appliances lower the overall cost of a backup solution. In-house solutions architecturally tailored, implemented, and maintained by IT staff are expensive. In addition, appliances shorten the install cycle and automate the mundane manual tasks of home-grown backup solutions.
Today's backup appliances take advantage of virtualized storage by offering deduplication technologies across many systems. Cloud virtualized storage and increased bandwidths shrink the distance between local and remote — a big boost to speeding up the transfer of disaster recovery copies.
As we enter 2012, even greater savings will continue for backup appliances customers as virtualization continues to simplify and automate. New advantages from backup appliances and virtualization will include better testing of upgrades and increased compatibility with improvements in storage and server virtualization.
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