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Posted on August, Tuesday 30, 2011 By itVAR News Network

Owning to its standards based global approach; the concept of Virtualization is being rapidly adopted, particularly in small to mid-sized businesses (SMBs) where time and money are always at a premium

It brings significant time, money and labor savings in a variety of areas, including procurement, administration, reliability, deployment, operation, manageability and recoverability.

Virtualization is fast gaining ground as it can easily and radically simplify management of the entire environment and enable the SMB IT administrators to do more with less.? Moreover, disaster recovery becomes significantly easier once a business has virtualized, provided the administrator adopts newer, more efficient technologies that are designed to work with the virtual infrastructure.

However, like any technology, virtualization brings challenges that can erode its cost benefits and leave the infrastructure less protected than before. Experts in the industry opine that the popularity of Virtualization can be attributed to its simple and affordable nature and the way it delivers effective data protection and maximize return on investment being made in virtualized infrastructure.

Minimize Data You Protect
Today with virtualization on your side, you can reduce the amount of data you back up while ensuring 100 percent recovery by using technologies that filter out unchanged and deleted data. While tools that utilize backup of some unnecessary data, virtualisation does not prevent the backup and restore of deleted data. The Windows operating system uses the unused free 
space that is allocated, but not used, for data to store deleted files. That deleted data is never removed until it is overwritten to make space for new data. That stretches backup times, lengthens restore times, and overloads your network.
IT managers need to select a tool that does not back up deleted data. That way, you can back up often and with greater granularity. You’ll also save substantially on storage space, backup time, bandwidth and recovery time, enabling you to have better recovery point objectives (RPOs) and shorter recovery time objectives (RTOs).
With time and global effort of vendors, the concept of Virtualisation has gained a lot of traction not only in big geographies like the US or Europe but even in countries like India and China. Moving forward, this is surely going to be a force to reckon with when it comes to providing SMBs with better economies of scale.

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