Backup and recovery have been an integral part of the IT and storage world for many decades. During that time, their importance has waxed and waned. Until recently, backup was considered by some to be a low-priority, must-be-done action. Enterprises knew they needed backups, but they wanted to focus on other areas, such as application development, software-as-a-service (SaaS), the cloud, virtualization, and actions that led to real business value.