Data protection and disaster recovery continue to be overarching challenges for most firms. To remedy a myriad of problems with data protection as well as operational and disaster recovery, companies are replacing legacy backup methods with new approaches. Replication and copy services, in concert with disk storage, are being used for recovery in the event of a logical or physical failure. As a result, replication capabilities are taking on more data management functions and policies to control the frequency, expiration, scheduling, retention, and methods of creating copies. Increasingly, the scope of data protection includes replication and copy services capabilities. Read this white paper to learn more about these exciting developments.