VMware Announces Broad Industry Support from Backup Vendors for VMware Consolidated Backup

VMware, Inc., the global leader in software for industry-standard virtualized desktops and servers, today at Storage Decisions announced broad industry support for VMware Consolidated Backup, a software product part of VMware Infrastructure 3 Enterprise edition that leverages virtualization technology to enable quick and easy backup and recovery. Leading backup and recovery software providers CA, CommVault, EMC, IBM Tivoli, Symantec and Vizioncore have pledged support for the product to ensure their customers benefit from its robust data protection functionality.

“Virtualization provides groundbreaking new ways to address age-old problems in the areas of system and data protection and recovery,” said Karthik Rau, senior director of infrastructure products and solutions at VMware. “Unlike traditional physical infrastructure, a virtual infrastructure eliminates the hardware dependencies that typically complicate backup and restore operations. Through VMware Consolidated Backup, VMware has created a powerful platform that enables industry-leading backup vendors to capitalize on the benefits of virtualization to provide greater efficiencies to our mutual customers. The broad industry support for VMware Consolidated Backup reaffirms the strategic importance of virtualization to any customer seeking to implement a forward-looking recovery strategy.”

VMware Infrastructure 3, the third generation of the industry-leading infrastructure virtualization software suite, provides a much faster and more reliable vehicle for backing up and recovering servers than physical infrastructure. Building on the benefits of VMware Infrastructure 3, VMware Consolidated Backup simplifies data protection by offloading backup to a centralized server. Offloading backup allows VMware ESX Server, which is also part of VMware Infrastructure 3, to run more virtual machines by reducing its load, and it eliminates hardware dependencies and enables backup to occur safely even during production hours.

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