Furthermore, companies are experiencing constricting budgets and have limited resources to support distributed environments, mobile workers, and multiple locations. This coupled with a dynamic business environment and ever changing requirements leave IT administrators feeling overwhelmed.

In addition to these data protection challenges, another challenge has become paramount in today’s business climate: cost savings. The data protection market has evolved with a number of alternatives that can save costs. One type of solution is a disk-based backup solution. Implementing a disk-based backup solution can save up to 40% when compared to traditional tape backups.