As server virtualization deployments expand in breadth and depth, IT organizations experience firsthand many of the inefficiencies of deploying data protection in the manner applied to physical server environments. The challenges for data protection—such as an increase in the volume of data to protect, difficulty meeting backup windows, backup processes in virtual machines disrupting normal processing of virtual machines sharing the same physical resources, increases in secondary storage capacity requirements, and higher costs—make the VMware environment ripe for improvement.

VMware vSphere addresses many of these challenges. Data is captured, transferred, and stored more efficiently by backup applications that take advantage of vSphere enhancements. EMC Avamar adds another efficiency dimension by not only leveraging vSphere functions and features, but by taking innovative approaches to economize and streamline backup and recovery processes.