There have been a whole slurry of recent white papers on virtual computer back-up strategies lately and many are considering this in order to save the last known data, before a disruption event and then allowing that to leave once another two virtual back-ups are completed and then at the end of each week an actual complete data backup might occur.
This strategy makes sense especially if the data is saved in multiple places to prevent any complete system failure.
Currently in consider all this I have found myself agreeing with such concepts and therefore believe I could be classified as being pro-Virtual Back-up.
Additionally many like the implications it has for the future of Quantum Computing too.
It also makes sense big time for disruptions and emergency use or trouble-shooting.
I too am of the belief that net-centric operations for multi-national corporations or for Large government computer centers this makes sense.
Many who work in the upper crest of IT are finally seeing light at the end of the tunnel and are getting there, but it is a slow go.
Still in implementation there are going to be issues with sub-system incompatibility and the patchwork, which opens doors to sneaky bad guys and adds hundreds if not thousands of additional human risks to the equation too.
All that aside protecting our IT Network from hackers is going to be a key and virtual back ups are a place to hide the data and throw away the keys to entry.
Anyway consider all this in 2006.