Analyses, strategies and best practices for backup and restore virtualized environments Hamburg, 1.12.2010 – the number of backup products in the market is big. The number of virtualized IT environments is much greater. And yet manufacturers have recognized only a handful of that virtualized environments require a special strategy to backup and recovery. The group directly a study has therefore published virtualized environments with analyses, strategies and best practices for backup and recovery. Classic backup method is used almost exclusively the backup data. There are currently no finished mechanisms for the full consistent recovery in virtual environments. Companies must develop their own strategies to backup and restore virtualized environments. Only so they can meet the requirements of availability, security and compliance.

The challenges of increasingly large amounts of data and tighter time Windows are to solve. The networks directly society for Informationstechnologie mbH, within the direct group specializing in architecture consulting and infrastructure projects, current backup technologies examined for their potential, resources to secure virtual environments and restore. From the results they derive strategies and recommendations, which can be seen in the background of the technical, organisational and legal situation of a company. The study for downloading: press/publications/backuprecovery / direct networks: the networks directly Gesellschaft fur Informationstechnologie mbH specialises in architecture consulting and projects in complex IT infrastructures. The IT professionals focus management and IT automation, identity management on the themes migration. Among the customers are mainly banks and insurance companies and Germany’s large and medium-sized companies with high penetration of IT.