Back in the days IT admins had considerably less of a headache when managing backups. They ran in the background of an organization and their main job was to process all the information and back them up efficiently. After which they started babysitting the backups until a time when a disaster strikes eventually. And if anything were to happen to their servers, all they had to do was to get their backup and restore it. Most of the files would have been restored and employees would be thankful to the entire IT department for reducing the damage to their files as much as possible.
However, today’s IT admins wish those golden days came back. Employees today jump out of their desk impatiently when something simple as an email application goes down. And the top priority of the day for the admins become getting those emails back live so that work can resume from where it left off. Hence I guess you could imagine what the day would look like if a critical application such as customer service or finance unit crashes.
So one thing that IT admins are clear on nowadays is that ‘a successful backup is no guarantee against downtimes’. Hence the only way for them to have complete protection from disasters was to use a combination of products from different vendors. Because finding a unified solution for backing up an entire set of applications used by an organization is seriously a nightmare.
This is where products like Vembu push aside typical BDR vendors. They have not only considered the factors that make up a complete backup solution but have also provided it in a unified and economical manner.
Extended support for various environments: It would be pointless to offer a solution that is not cross-platform supported. It’s like asking an organization to do away with their existing infrastructure and adopt to a more backup support friendly architecture(which is like the craziest thing an organization can ever do). Vembu supports Windows, Mac, Linux, and the best VM’s in the market (VMware, XenServer, Hyper-V).
No more babysitting: One of the biggest advantage of using Vembu is that you can perform verification tests by using the automated screenshots and ensure that your backups are successful and can be booted at any time.
Reduced failover times: Downtimes will no longer be issues for admins since the failover time required to run a machine during the event of a disaster will be a matter of minutes.
However if you still have any other ingenious ideas that you are currently using to backup all your critical applications then do drop in a comment and I will be obliged to get the discussion going.
