Disaster Recovery Journal Fall 2025

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Data Mobility Emerging as a Must-Have Backup

account for changing recovery requirements. Organizations may assume they can recover virtual machines (VMs) to the same platform they initially hosted them. If so, they better rethink that assumption. As more organiza tions use multiple hypervisors and clouds and hybrid environ ments, data mobility across them becomes a critical recovery capability. Recovery Now Must Occur Anywhere Many enterprise backup software offerings already can protect VMs across multiple hypervisors and clouds and across hybrid cloud environments. However, as they protect VMs, organiza tions must now verify they can recover VMs to a different plat form. This requirement to recover VMs anywhere has come more sharply into focus. Multiple variables contribute to this heightened emphasis. However, Broadcom’s VMware software licensing changes prob ably stands out as the single biggest driving factor.

Software Feature By JEROME WENDT O

rganizations may view their historic struggles with backup, recovery, and perhaps even disaster recovery as over. Better backup software, disk- and flash-based backup targets, snapshot technologies, and cloud data centers have contributed to solving these challenges. However, before organizations officially deem backup, recovery and DR as solved, they need to

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