Cloud storage continues to grow increasingly complicated, as businesses look for more out of their data protection vendors than data protection.
Data is a very valuable resource, and the best data protection offerings not only ensure it is backed up and accessible in a disaster, but also can be managed across and migrated over on-premises and cloud infrastructures. With such capabilities now table stakes for both legacy and startup vendors, vendors in the past year have turned to more advanced offerings that include Kubernetes container data protection and application-aware data protection.
And those vendors haven’t been shy about making acquisitions, as was seen throughout the industry in 2020.
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