You made the business decision to pursue virtualization because you knew it would dramatically reduce your hardware costs and it would radically decrease your utility bills. You also saw it as a way to pursue higher availability at a much lower cost when compared to traditional clustering. You knew there was no magic - that the only way to handle an ever escalating regulatory environment was real physical data protection. However, what you may not have counted on was the complexity that arose from virtualization: new administrative skills, different virtualization vendors, different versions of virtualization platforms with different licensing policies, mixed physical and virtual environments, a plethora of virtual machine images, and SAN vendors attempting to capitalize on the advantages of virtualization to achieve lock-in so that they can achieve higher margins for storage now and in the future. And these are just a few of the challenges you face.

We can help. At Unitrends, we’ve built a business continuity and disaster recovery company around supporting heterogeneous operating systems and storage platforms. We have taken the same approach with respect to virtualization - we support multiple virtualizaiton platforms as well as multiple data protection techniques. For example, for VMware, we support techniques ranging from lightweight agents on virtual machines to VCB to full support for vSphere's Data Recovery virtual appliance - as well as with third-party VMware products such as Veeam, vRanger, esXpress, and others.

Unitrends. Bridging the gap between the promise of virtualization and the reality of real-world data protection.