Protect heterogeneous environments without adding complexity
Mid-market companies typically have more complex, heterogeneous environments than smaller businesses. And, as they grow, they must manage both virtual and physical servers, as well as multiple networks, applications and operating systems. Therefore, by utilizing a single solution with heterogeneous capabilities to protect all operating systems and applications in your customers’ environments, you can gain a powerful competitive advantage. With a centralized management approach, you can eliminate “point product creep” and avoid having to add a variety of point products to meet the multiple platform demands of mid-market customers. For example, seek solutions that protect virtual environments at the host operating system (HOS) level to avoid the headache of installing agents on every virtual machine (VM) or having to put in the extra effort of granularly targeting each VM during backup. At the same time, you will want to protect physical machines with agents in order to get the ultimate granular restore and Bare Metal Restore (BMR) capabilities necessary for proper backup and recovery. Additionally, you should be able to replicate and pre-stage disaster recovery environments in your own data center in order to guarantee the flexibility to meet customers’ expectations.