EMC Avamar® optimizes backup and recovery for enterprise customers and for service providers who need to protect thousands of VMs. Avamar is able to perform backups 90 percent faster and requires 20 times less storage space – all while using 1/20th of the compute and network resources required by other backup solutions. With added support for VMware vCloud Director, EMC extends this data protection to cloud infrastructures, with recovery at the tenant, VM, and “file within VM” level.
Read the entire announcement at http://www.emc.com/about/news/press/2011/20110712-01.htm
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