The document discusses modern data protection trends for VMware environments and IBM's data protection portfolio. It notes that organizations face challenges around data growth, security threats, and the need for data availability and reuse. IBM's portfolio aims to address these challenges through features like agentless backups, instant recovery, data reuse capabilities, cyber resiliency tools, and integration with multiple clouds. The document provides an overview of why various stakeholders in an organization, like business leaders, lines of business, and IT teams, care about modernizing data protection and what capabilities are important to them.