We live in a world where predictable life events are very rare. Other than a few examples like starting school at the age of five, falling in love and dying, i don’t think there is much to add on. Similarly If there is one thing that is unpredictable in business, it’s demand. But people still try and overcome that by having a team of experts who could “predict” capacity and enlighten us with a predictive analysis report. But it surely doesn’t help you save dollars especially if you are an IT service provider because your servers are still sitting idle when not needed. Then came the breakthrough technology, a saviour, now commonly known as ‘Virtualization’.
Integrating virtualization into your backup strategy, requires a lot of work in terms of a new DR strategy, retention strategy and so on. SMEs looking to protect their entire environment (virtual or physical) using a single backup software product need one that offers the right set of features to address their specific needs. This is where a product like ours which started out protecting physical environments but had evolved to protect virtual environments coercively have an advantage.
So, when we realized that small business had a rising interest in server virtualization, we started developing a sophisticated backup product that met specific requirements and also made sure small business owners understand that virtual machines need a customized backup strategy.
Hence developing a comprehensive back up offering for a virtual server had become much more critical than ever. A few advantages of using Vembu virtual backup and disaster recovery solution are:
Stay with the ‘times’
Creating snapshots of your virtual servers is not only a safe and sound way to ensure backup integrity but also to ensure that the data is ‘up to date’.
‘Downtimes’…… whaaat?
A backup of a virtual machine can be transferred from one server to another instantly and deployed anywhere necessary. And since restoring a snapshot is like crazy fast than restoring a physical server, downtime is no longer your problem.
Save Costs…..Go green
Maybe you aren’t the ‘tree hugging’ environmentalist type but it’s cool. By virtualizing your servers you not only save a lot of server bucks but also a lot of energy.
To know more about the criteria that SMEs should consider when making a virtual server backup software buying decision and which vendor may best suit your environment, please drop in a comment and I’ll answer them to the best of my knowledge.
