5 Common Red Flags with Nutanix Backup Providers

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Demands all of your time and attention

Legacy backup solutions—especially those built for VMware—are notoriously complex and time-consuming. Their manual processes and high maintenance requirements drain resources, create inefficiencies, and pull focus away from your strategic IT priorities.

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Ignoring your needs

Most backup providers offer only basic Nutanix coverage, leaving critical gaps in protection. Legacy solutions also lack deep integration, scalability, and flexibility—creating data silos, slowing recovery, and increasing compliance risks.

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Bad Communication

Legacy backup providers are incredibly complex and burdened by outdated, unintuitive user interfaces, leading to errors, inefficiencies, and wasted time. This increases costs, recovery risks, and diverts IT focus from strategic priorities.

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Shifting Blame

If your vendor blames your network, storage, or demands more proxies and agents, they may be avoiding accountability. A reliable backup solution should integrate seamlessly, not drive costly upgrades and inefficiencies through constant blame-shifting.

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Financial Irresponsibility

Legacy backup solutions drive up TCO with costly hardware and high compute demands for basic tasks, resulting

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