The Future of Backup: Three Observations
Data reported by many sources shows that the economy is regaining its footing and it is just a matter of time when investments in IT products and services will increase. As organizations aggressively virtualize servers, backup becomes increasingly problematic. The benefits of higher server utilization and increased efficiency have a challenging side-effect, namely reducing the amount of physical resources available for CPU-intensive applications like backup.
The result is that backup windows are tightening in many shops, and users are forced to sacrifice recovery point objectives (RPO) or deploy more physical resources to accommodate backup requirements.
Most IT organizations will transition to unified backup & replication products that offer unified data protection strategy rather than just bundles of separate tools.