12 March 2010
Friday
What to consider when backing up virtual machines
By Taylor-Mountford, President of Acronis APAC | Feb 4, 2010
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With more and more organizations adopting virtualization technologies, enjoying cost savings and simplified server management in datacenters, Virtual Machine (VM) backup and recovery has become a major challenge to IT administrators. This article discusses how to re-evaluate their backup strategies and provide VMs with the same safeguards as physical servers.
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