Storage Switzerland highlights how companies like Gridstore have addressed VM backup demands with software defined storage. The Grid virtualizes the entire storage stack to scale I/O capacity and performance at a reasonable cost.
This Storage Switzerland white paper identifies the following as the five key dilemmas of VM backup solved by the Gridstore solution:
1. Properly sizing a disk backup infrastructure to support VM data protection
2. The need for random I/O backup performance
3. High performance restoration requirements
4. High reliability to assure zero data loss
5. The need for a cost effective storage platform that can meet backup needs almost as well as primary storage
