Virtualization Strategies for the CIO
This year’s winners in the backup and storage category provide better integration with virtualization and all hypervisors. One product even integrates well with physical infrastructure.
De-duplication, snapshots and shorter virtual machine recovery times are a few of the most important capabilities these products offer.
Backup and storage for virtualization
The top winners in this category are:
- Gold Award:
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Veeam Backup & Replication 5.0
Veeam Backup & Replication 5.0 stays true to its name -- combining backup and replication in a single product that allows for rapid ESX/ESXi recoveries.
- Silver Award:
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Symantec's NetBackup 7 integrates easily with virtualization, but it's also useful for organizations that aren't fully virtualized.
- Bronze Award:
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Simpana 9 software reduces virtual machine recovery times with snapshots and integrates easily with virtualization.
