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Your expert guide to data protection strategy: backup, replication, snapshots and virtualisation

Data protection is vital to all organisations. But there are many ways to approach it. From traditional and agent-based to approaches tailored to virtual environments to replication and snapshots. We walk you from the basics of backup methods to the pros and cons of different ways of protecting data and key issues in virtual machine backup.

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