Organizations have a broad range of choices when it comes to execution venues for workloads, from traditional on-premises infrastructures to hyperscaler public clouds and SaaS platforms. True hybrid IT, which can leverage on-premises and cloud resources interchangeably, is the desired state for organizations since it provides maximum flexibility. Adding to the burden is the emergence of newer technologies such as containers and cloud-native data services, as well as growing threats such as ransomware, which are forcing organizations to rethink their data protection and recovery strategies.

Meeting disaster recovery (DR) and business continuity requirements has long been a top pain point for organizations, and this goal has become more difficult to reach since customer expectations for uptime and data recovery include very little tolerance for lost time or lost data.

Modern data protection tools must evolve in multiple dimensions to keep pace:

• Provide comprehensive data protection
• Facilitate reliable recovery from ransomware
• Deliver enterprise-class scalability, performance and ease of use
• Provide support for modern applications and operational practices
• Have the ability to integrate cloud into a data protection strategy