5 Ways VMware vSphere Improves Backup and Recovery

VMware's latest enterprise-level hypervisor product suite, vSphere, includes many new features and technological enhancements over its predecessor, VMware Infrastructure 3 (VI3). While there are several reasons to upgrade to vSphere, this white paper focuses on how VMware improved various storage technologies, how these relate to data backup and recovery, and how the new vStorage Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) allow for better storage integration with third-party backup applications.