Note

Storage is a big ticket item that often only gets purchased every three to five years. Get best practice buyer's advise that leverages the purchasing experience of your IT peers.

Note

This vendor landscape looks at the Enterprise Backup Software market to provide recommendations on which vendors are most suitable for your organization backup needs.

Tool

The Backup Software Vendor Shortlist Tool allows enterprises to profile their backup software requirements and generate a rank ordered vendor shortlist from a fixed list of vendors.

Tool

This tool allows enterprises to generate a customized shortlist of vendors based on required capabilities and future requirements around disk-based backup.

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EMC Data Domain continues to dominate, but selection is becoming more difficult as the market matures. Products appear similar, but an in-depth look into features and context will match you with the right vendor.

Note

In selecting consolidated storage, the goal is to meet strategic business requirements while getting the most for your dollar. Find the best fit for your needs in an increasing consolidated vendor landscape.

Solution Set

This solution set will clearly describe the strengths and weaknesses of a full range of vendors in midrange storage and will apply a range of scenarios to provide deeper insight into what solutions are best.

Vendor Research

This report is designed to aid vendors and solution providers in the sales and marketing of backup software to end customers.

Tool

For organizations that have issued a formal Request for Proposal (RFP) to evaluate backup software vendors, gathering and scoring the various responses can be difficult and time consuming. This tool enables enterprises to evaluate and compare...

Template/Policy

This template is designed to provide backup software vendors with a consistent set of instructions, ensuring an objective comparison of product features, all while evaluating ease-of-use from a user and IT perspective. This template is pre-built...

Video

Recent developments, such as increased virtualization and expanding storage capacity requirements, are changing backup infrastructure and creating new challenges. Understand vendor capabilities to meet availability and restore objectives while...

(4-Dec-09) In the race between plummeting costs per terabyte and exploding amounts of data in need of storage, the latter perpetually seems miles ahead. In 2007, IDC estimated that the “digital universe” would grow from 161 exabytes in 2006 to...

A surefire sign that a new technology has fully emerged is when top-tier vendors get into the act. This has happened in the data deduplication appliance arena as both IBM and EMC have made recent moves. Take another look at what the big players...

Data deduplication has become a hot trend in disk to disk backup. This will only lead to more vociferous claims and counter claims about what is the best way to do dedupe. In this cacophony of claims, get past the fear, uncertainty, and doubt...

EMC's backup and recovery software, NetWorker, is a market leader offering data deduplication and continuous data protection (CDP). In recent years, EMC has been aggressive in expanding its backup capabilities, primarily through acquisition....