NovaStor,
an international provider of award-winning backup solutions, has
released the results from a survey of over 500 partners and power users
in the small business marketplace, revealing intriguing results.
According to results of the survey, more than 66% of small business
NovaBACKUP users are utilizing server virtualization with up to 80%
planning to adopt the technology in the near future. These numbers
continue to climb as businesses grow in size to over 100 employees. The
average distribution of virtual servers vs. physical servers for these small businesses average around 38% for physical and 62% for virtual environments.
With perceived cost barriers for entry into virtualization technology
rapidly dropping, small businesses are seizing the opportunity to
reduce hardware and maintenance costs and further centralize company
data protection.
Mike Andrews, Managing Director at NovaStor takes note of the small
business virtualization trend, “NovaStor reseller partners are fielding
requests for server consolidation projects, even from smaller businesses
that may only have 3-5 servers. Protecting critical data during the
migration process and implementing an affordable backup strategy is
where NovaBACKUP is truly a valued asset.”
NovaStor Authorized and Certified Partners
who sell to small businesses also show a burgeoning public acceptance
of virtualization, with requests for server consolidation solutions on
the rise. And with strengthened regulations regarding the protection of
customer data and heightened awareness surrounding data protection, more
clients are seeking out straightforward solutions that protect both
physical and virtual environments.
The overwhelming choice by partners for the protection of both physical and virtual data from a single application is the new NovaBACKUP Business Essentials 16, which showcases a variety of new virtualization features including:
-
The NovaBACKUP Virtual Dashboard
- Single File Restore for Virtual Machines
- Virtual Machine Replication Functionality
Gauging the most exciting feature for NovaStor Partners in this release proved to be “Single File Restore”
for virtual machines, allowing IT administrators to save valuable time
by restoring only the files they need from Hyper-V and VMware backups.
Now recovering individual files, subdirectories or entire drives from
any virtual machine a simple task.