IT managers must contend with growing expectations from their end users and need to evaluate innovative new backup approaches to meet these needs. Purpose-built backup appliances are an increasingly popular storage technology that enables IT managers to meet their needs for a cost-efficient, easy to deploy and use data protection solution that reduces the data footprint and enables faster and more reliable recovery. IDC encourages European IT managers to evaluate purpose-built backup appliances when updating or rearchitecting their backup and recovery solutions and capabilities. Read more …