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Vendor Landscape: Cloud Backup
Match cloud economics with on-premise reliability.
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Your Challenge
- It’s hard to get the bearings of a market where most of the vendors have been around for just two or three years.
- Cloud backup vendors have different definitions for what entails an enterprise-class cloud backup solution, further complicating the situation.
- Info-Tech Research Group has developed a clear definition of business-class cloud backup, and evaluated seven leading vendors.
Our Advice
Critical Insight- Direct-to-cloud backup solutions are not enterprise ready. They provide no resiliency in the event your Internet connection is not available.
- Cloud backup startups come with impressive pedigrees, typically founded by people who have experience in storage, WAN optimization, and security.
- Cloud backup is a rapidly maturing market heading for commoditization already, and vendors have already begun differentiating themselves by focusing on specific problems or niche markets.
Select the Cloud Backup solution that’s the best fit for your organization, taking into account advanced features, support, and vendor viability by customizing the Vendor Landscape according to what criteria are most important to you.
Get to Action
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Evaluate cloud backup solutions
Find the cloud backup solution that best meshes with your environment and needs.
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Identify cloud backup solution criteria that are most important to you
Develop a custom shortlist of the most appropriate cloud backup solutions.
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Don't think cost per Terabyte of storage. Think efficiency and value per Terabyte stored.
Select a consolidated storage vendor in an increasingly consolidated market.
Get best practice advice that leverages the buying experience of your IT peers.
Transform backup architecture by focusing on service tiering.
Purchase in-house storage capacity, or pay for usage in the cloud.
Match cloud economics with on-premise reliability.
2 Comments
I recommend adding Riverbed WhiteWater to the list.
http://www.riverbed.com/us/products/cloud_products/whitewater.php
Thank you for the recommendation. Riverbed Whitewater was not included in this Vendor Landscape because it is not a cloud storage service, but a cloud storage gateway. Whitewater accelerates traffic between your site and the cloud storage service, whereas this Vendor Landscape covered cloud storage services instead.