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Develop a Backup Software Strategy
Meet recovery objectives while addressing modern challenges.
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.
- Thirty-nine percent of organizations have recently implemented a new backup architecture, which is a perfect opportunity to consider alternative backup software. Backup software is only one part of the overall backup strategy.
- 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.
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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Contrast and evaluate a shortlist of vendors
Select the right backup software vendor.
Related Solution Sets
Vendor Landscape: Enterprise Backup Software
Find out which vendors are backing up their claims and which ones are just duplicating past efforts.
Develop a Backup Architecture Strategy
Meet data and system protection requirements with the right blend of tape, disk, or Cloud.
Document and Maintain the Disaster Recovery Plan
Organizations continue to struggle with creating DRPs and making them actionable. It's time for a new approach.
Right-Size Enterprise Disaster Recovery Plans
DR is not a one-size fits all proposition; make sure spending matches needs.
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Solution Road Map
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Right-Size Enterprise Disaster Recovery PlansDR is not a one-size fits all proposition; make sure spending matches needs.
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Develop a Backup Software StrategyMeet recovery objectives while addressing modern challenges.
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Vendor Landscape: Windows/Linux Backup for SMEsProtect your industry standard (x86) Windows and Linux server assets.
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Vendor Landscape: Backup Software for Heterogeneous EnvironmentsBe prepared for the future. Protect your past.
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Vendor Landscape: Virtual Backup SoftwareEvaluate virtual backup software to end the arguing between virtual and backup admins.
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Document and Maintain the Disaster Recovery PlanOrganizations continue to struggle with creating DRPs and making them actionable. It's time for a new approach.