With data rapidly growing in volume, type, and location across the enterprise – protecting and managing data has become a struggle. The large and diverse estates that organizations now have present an ongoing operational challenge for teams because they now have more data to manage, across more systems than ever before.

To add to the challenge, administrators that are managing the systems have been left to wrangle everything from physical systems, operating systems, virtual machines, databases, file systems, and containers with either native tools or, worse, data protection solutions that leverage legacy architectures.