In the future, we expect enterprises will ensure business continuity for applications running on cloud IaaS by selecting a backup platform that supports a variety of cloud APIs so that it’s easy to backup to any infrastructure as a service or any on-premise object storage. In addition, we expect enterprises to optimize backups at the source using granular backup tools, deduplication and compression to ensure it’s possible to backup and recover across wide area networks. Finally, enterprises will implement cross-cloud replication of backups to enable near-instant recovery after any major cloud outage via a secondary provider, without requiring expensive application-level live replication and continuous data protection tools.