Legacy products that were around before the dawn of server virtualization are beginning to catch up. It’s no longer easy to justify a dual-pronged approach to backup that involves one product for the virtualized environment and a different one for the physical environment. At the same time, in order to stay relevant, VM-specific backup utilities are becoming more enterprise-oriented. These applications offer support for multiple operating systems, tape support (which remains important), and improved support of the virtual environments’ abilities in backup and recovery.”]
Source: https://www.darkreading.com/database-security/the-state-of-virtual-data-protection-and-recovery