Backup and recovery are two of the most critical data center operations, but somehow, backup is one of the last IT areas to modernize. This can be attributed to tight budgets, an unsteady economy and the various media used for backup, among other contributing factors like higher IT priorities, changing IT infrastructures and the advent of virtualization.

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