Traditional agent-based backup and recovery force the enterprise into a series of unattractive choices.
 

• Agent based technologies pollute virtual server environments.
• Agents, by their nature, lack cohesion.
• The need to physically install and manage agents on each application within the virtual server and each machine is time and labour intensive.
• A single agent adds as much as 16% server overhead to each application.
• Add to that the security risk and cost of each agent and it becomes quite clear, agent based backup and recovery dramatically impacts the TCO and performance of the virtual server environment.