Cost savings drove much of the initial cloud adoption and data centre virtualisation efforts. And, for the majority of businesses, it remains a significant driver. But as IT organisations build out private and hybrid clouds, agility has become a primary motivating factor.

This agility, unfortunately, comes at a price. As IT organisations combine clouds – be they private, community or public – the IT environment becomes more complex, and the risk of losing data, whether due to unplanned downtime or a catastrophic event, increases.

IT organisations require a means to protect their data, regardless of where it’s stored, and maintain the agility benefits they’ve worked hard to achieve. A cloud-based data management solution can deliver that protection while not only preserving the organisation’s current agility but also extending it to backup and disaster recovery operations.