Next generation data protection approaches such as virtual tape and data de-duplication are helping customers reduce costs, improve efficiencies and better address RPO and RTO objectives. However in implementing these technologies customers need to balance risk with cost and carefully consider the alternatives and options. For example:

• Which applications are the best candidates for data de-duplication?
• How is meta data protected in these systems and how can customers protect against catostrophic data loss?
• What forms of data de-duplication are best for which applications?
• What are the performance and overhead considerations?
• How should VMware customers re-architect backup and recovery?

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