Virtual v’s Physical Appliances – 4 Compelling Reasons for Change
Redundancy and Backup
It is essential in this day and age, that organizations plan for the possibility of disaster. This is essential regardless of the size of the organization. In fact, it could be considered to be more important for smaller organizations as large companies have significant resources to specifically deal with redundancy, backup and disaster recovery. In contrast, smaller companies will often struggle with maintaining off-site backups for the different appliances deployed. Often, each appliance will have its own backup schema making automation difficult if not impossible and requiring specialist knowledge by the person tasked with maintaining backups.
