IT is seeing a big change in the way that virtual machines (VMs) are being used and deployed. Over the past few years, the shift into hybrid environments has shown drastic changes. According to a recent study by Gartner, VMs delivered through public IaaS providers grew from 3% in 2011 to nearly 20% in 2014, with the majority of that growth occurring on Amazon Web Services (AWS). SMBs should start seeing hybrid environments as a flexible and cost effective alternative to on-premise environments.
How are VMs being used in the cloud?
After speaking with many of our partners, we are seeing VMs being deployed for many different use cases. VMs are not only being used to run business critical applicatications, they are also being used for testing software or upgrades, creating sandbox environments, accessing old hardware safely, migrations, backup and recovery and more. With AWS and Microsoft’s Azure racing their prices into the ground, the ability for SMBs to start taking advantage of high performance IT in the cloud has never been more available than it has been today.
How does this impact your business?
With the flexibility of VMs, along with the commoditization of the market, IT is being pushed into hybrid environments; it will no longer be profitable for SMBs to be solely on-premise. This means that there should be a high demand within your business to identify your IT needs and be able to address them appropriately.
Especially when it comes to VMs, it is important that SMBs have reliable backup and recovery software that they can use fluidly with their AWS deployments. The ability to identify business critical VMs and perform a low cost DR solution will start to play a very important role as the shift to the cloud becomes greater each year.
Vembu’s long term strategy is to offer a low cost backup and recovery solution that integrates with the cloud so that we can be on the forefront of that change. Vembu is an Amazon AWS Technology Partner, VMware Elite Partner and Microsoft Gold Certified Partner. These partnerships allow Vembu to develop technologies that integrate seamlessly into enterprise level infrastructures and applications.
Vembu BDR™ and Vembu OnlineBackup™ are specifically for built for SMBs to help protect their hybrid environments. We have been working closely with our partners to ensure that they have the tools they need to successfully backup and recover their VMs both scalably and efficiently.
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