{"id":7762,"date":"2013-06-09T23:22:12","date_gmt":"2013-06-09T23:22:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cloudcomputing-news.net\/news\/2013\/jun\/10\/85-smes-struggle-cost-backing-virtual-servers-says-report\/"},"modified":"2013-06-09T23:22:12","modified_gmt":"2013-06-09T23:22:12","slug":"85-of-smes-struggle-with-cost-of-backing-up-virtual-servers-says-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/85-of-smes-struggle-with-cost-of-backing-up-virtual-servers-says-report\/","title":{"rendered":"85% of SMEs struggle with cost of backing up virtual servers, says report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nearly nine in 10 small to medium businesses have experienced &ldquo;cost-related challenges&rdquo; with backing up and recovering virtual servers, according to the latest industry report from virtualisation provider Veeam.<\/p>\n<p>These fiscal frustrations primarily included ongoing management costs, backups requiring too much storage and expensive licensing models, according to the report.<\/p>\n<p>Conducted in November and December 2012 by independent market research specialists Vanson Bourne, the report surveyed C-level executives or higher from the US, UK, Germany and France.<\/p>\n<p>And the underlying theme from the research was that, in spite of how important it is to back up VMs and servers, it&rsquo;s not a walk in the park.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps unsurprisingly, as is the way of these things, the research from a virtualisation provider advocates virtualisation as the primary solution, yet the statistics on their own still make interesting reading.<\/p>\n<p>The most eye-opening of the lot was that more than half (55 &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nearly nine in 10 small to medium businesses have experienced &ldquo;cost-related challenges&rdquo; with backing up and recovering virtual servers, according to the latest industry report from virtualisation provider Veeam.<br \/>\nThese fiscal frustrations pr&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7762","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7762","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7762"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7762\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}