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Vendor Landscape: Enterprise Backup Software
Find out which vendors are backing up their claims and which ones are just duplicating past efforts.
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Your Challenge
- Backup infrastructures are changing. Recent developments, such as increased virtualization and expanding storage requirements, have created new challenges for meeting restore objectives while minimizing costs.
- Virtualization is creating new challenges and opportunities for organizations in terms of availability and recovery, leading vendors to innovate and incorporate with recent developments in deduplication capabilities.
- Deduplication, at the source and target, is becoming a commodity feature that is covered by almost every vendor, and capilities for integration with storage will be a differentiator in 2012.
- Organizations are showing increasing interest in public cloud integration. If this is in your plans for your backup environment, it’s important to know who integrates with the Cloud and who doesn’t.
- Get a handle on what differentiates each of eight different backup software vendors in Info-Tech’s backup software Vendor Landscape.
Our Advice
Critical Insight- Backup may seem boring, but it is too important to be ignored. Regular backup review, including analysis of alternatives, is critical to ensuring the availability of foreground business-enabling IT services.
- Organizations that evaluate their backup software, but choose not to switch, are just as successful as those that have switched in the past 18 months. Don’t let a failure be your evaluation driver.
- When looking at backup software vendors, don’t be distracted by flashy new features. Backup software should really be called restore software.
- Failure in backup is failure to meet recovery objectives. Always evaluate features in light of these objectives.
Get to Action
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Narrow down your list of backup software vendors
Focus on investing in features that help achieve your availability and recovery objectives.
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Compare leading vendors and develop a shortlist
Narrow the leading vendors down to the most appropriate few.
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Vendor Landscape Plus: Consolidated Storage Platforms
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Right-Size Enterprise Disaster Recovery Plans
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Document the Disaster Recovery Plan Now
Having disaster recovery capabilities is not enough; you need documentation for disaster recovery to be effective.
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Solution Road Map
Other Solution Sets in Disaster Recovery Planning
1. Right-Size Enterprise Disaster Recovery Plans
DR is not a one-size fits all proposition; make sure spending matches needs.
DR is not a one-size fits all proposition; make sure spending matches needs.
2. Select the Right Enterprise Backup Software
Meet recovery objectives while addressing modern challenges.
Meet recovery objectives while addressing modern challenges.
3. Provision the Facilities and Technologies to Provide DR Capabilities
Treehouse or Taj Mahal? Pick the facilities and technologies that best meet enterprise DR needs.
Treehouse or Taj Mahal? Pick the facilities and technologies that best meet enterprise DR needs.
4. Vendor Landscape: Enterprise Backup Software
Find out which vendors are backing up their claims and which ones are just duplicating past efforts.
Find out which vendors are backing up their claims and which ones are just duplicating past efforts.
5. Document the Disaster Recovery Plan Now
Having disaster recovery capabilities is not enough; you need documentation for disaster recovery to be effective.
Having disaster recovery capabilities is not enough; you need documentation for disaster recovery to be effective.
3 Comments
I feel this article missed the boat...
Appassure Replay Disaster Recovery software is great and was just aquired by DELL
Thank you for your feedback on this Vendor Landscape. Typically, our inclusion criteria is based on market share, mind share, and client interest. We have definitely seen increased interest from our clients regarding AppAssure in the weeks prior to and following Dell’s acquisition. However, the research process behind these reports begins months in advance of publication.
We will continue to follow Dell as they roll AppAssure into its portfolio, and we may include Dell’s AppAssure in our refresh of this report or other Vendor Landscapes depending on how Dell utilizes this newly acquired IP.
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