Server virtualization has become one of the most vital technologies in IT departments today because it reduces operational and capital expenditure through consolidation, rapid server deployment and cost-effective disaster recovery. However, for many organizations server migration takes too long, is too difficult, and backup impact limits virtual machine density. Read this paper to learn what a survey of users showed about the true impact of virtualization migrations on their organizations, and how automating backup can simplify and shorten the migration process. Benefits such as reduced system downtime and greater staff efficiency are outlined.

Two growing consolidation trends, virtualization and deduplication, are converging in data centers due mainly to inefficiencies in the traditional backup and restore model. If data protection were inherently efficient, today’s rigorous and sometimes frantic demand for data reduction on the secondary side, and the backup contention menace that unbalances so many virtualization experiences on the primary side, could be eliminated. Read this paper to learn why managing data protection more efficiently is fundamental to data center efficiency and future data center growth, and how it addresses server sprawl challenges, adds performance enhancements, reduces hardware costs, and improves protection and administrative ease-of-use.