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Protecting Virtualized Data

More and more businesses are converting their physical infrastructures over to virtualization. Virtualization has many benefits that are good for businesses of all sizes. But, even with all the advances of virtualization there is still a need to backup the data. This post will show you some of the biggest challenges you will face when backing up virtualized servers and data.

Before we go much further, it is important to understand what data virtualization is. Basically, this is the practice of moving data that is stored on a local compute and moving it to another computer like a server. This has many benefits which include a central place to store data and back it up, a reduction in replication.

Before the popularity of virtualization companies had to worry about the possibility of backing up millions of files that are stored on servers. However, now they face the prospect of backing up billions of files. Unfortunately, using traditional backup means is not viable for backing up this amount of files. You will want to make sure that the backup solution you want to implement will support backing up virtualized data.

Another obstacle to backing up virtualized data is the problem of server growth. Building and deploying servers is very easy in a virtualized environment and it is easy to decide to build a new server for any app or role that needs to be fulfilled. This means that your backup solution needs to also support handling new servers on the network, and be flexible enough to easily add new servers.

When you start implementing virtualization in your environment, there is a good chance that your user expectations will also increase. Their lack of understanding of the technology will make many assume that this new system will be better and more robust, therefore it is capable of handling anything they throw at it. Therefore, you want to make sure your backup solution is powerful and robust enough to handle this new onslaught. You will also want to make sure that your system can recover rapidly because they will have the expectation that virtualization means reduced downtime and rapid recovery.

Virtualization is the wave of the future for IT. It has so many benefits that cannot be ignored. These include rapid deployment, central management, reduced physical footprint, reduced energy consumption and many others. But, you need to make sure that you are able to protect this new infrastructure and the data it holds. Otherwise, you are just asking for trouble if a negative situation arises.

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