There are many things to consider when an organization moves their virtual machines to the cloud. Key focus areas may include modernizing the IT environment, optimizing infrastructure, managing and lowering costs, maintaining applications, and avoiding refactoring. Once the hard work is done and the virtualized environment is lifted and shifted to the cloud, it is vital to ensure that the organization’s data is protected. Having a solution that can easily backup and recover data in event of a disaster is key to building a cloud-based business, no matter where the data resides in the environment.