Research
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The Decentralization of Data Protection Continues
For the past few years, we’ve continued to watch workload-administrators and IT Operations folks raise their influence in regard to which data protection product(s) are in use today. It’s actually quite reasonable: those IT professionals are responsible for the usability of their platforms and have unique understandings of how and which data should be protected…
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Your Data Is a Strategic Asset – Treat It That Way!
Improving data backup and recovery was the second most commonly cited IT priority for 2015 among respondents surveyed by ESG for its 2015 IT spending intentions report (see Figure 1). But as important as backup and recovery are, the survey tells another story, too. The most frequently mentioned priority was information security. What that finding…
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Why is There So Much Desire to Change Data Protection Solutions?
In a recent ESG research survey, respondents were asked “If they could start from scratch, what would they do from a data protection solution perspective?” with less than half of respondents stating that they would use their existing vendor/solution. As shown in the figure above, collectively more people would change vendors or go to a…
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Vendors Need to Rethink Their Channel Programs
In recent ESG research on data protection personas, methods, and channels, ESG looked at ‘who’ is affecting data protection, including IT operations, DBAs, vAdmins, file/storage admins, non-technical stakeholders, and channel partners. While data protection has historically been very channel-driven, or at least channel-accelerated, recent data shows that there are disconnects between how IT decision makers…
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Where ‘Data Protection’ Fits among 2015 IT Spending Priorities (Video)
Each year, ESG publishes its annual IT Spending Intentions report – and each year, I look at the research from a “Data Protection Guy’s” perspective. I’ve already shared my 2015 Data Protection Predictions that were in part based on that research, but my friends in the ESG video studio let me share my data protection…
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Video Series on Data Protection Appliances – Part 4, Failover BC/DR Appliances
The last installment in our four-Friday video series, based on the recent ESG research report on the Shift toward Data Protection Appliances, Part four covers what might be the most interesting, albeit nascent category –failover or BC/DR appliances. While the other three categories are predominantly based on or designed for the same “backup/restore” type methodology,…
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Video Series on Data Protection Appliances – Part 3, Cloud Gateway Appliances
Continuing our four-Friday video series, based on the recent ESG research report on the Shift toward Data Protection Appliances, This installment covers cloud gateway appliances that are designed to be part of a data protection strategy. Early DP cloud gateways have a similar value-proposition as mainstream deduplication storage appliances in that they can be added…
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Video Series on Data Protection Appliances – Part 2, Deduplication Appliances
Continuing our four-Friday video series, based on the recent ESG research report on the Shift toward Data Protection Appliances, This installment covers deduplication storage appliances – those wonderful storage devices that drop in existing (or new) backup and archival infrastructures and automagically and radically reduce storage consumption through optimized protection storage. In case you missed…
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Video Series on Data Protection Appliances – Part 1, Backup Appliances
In March 2015, ESG published its research report on the Shift toward Data Protection Appliances. In ESG’s taxonomy, there are four types of DPAs in market today. For the next four Fridays, I’ll be releasing videos (about 4 minutes long each), detailing why each type of DPA is interesting, current and anticipated usage trends, etc.…
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A Few of the Backup Appliances Examined by ESG Lab
This week, I offered some perspectives on What Makes a Good Backup Appliance, and I’d like to offer some further perspective on these types of products. My thoughts on What Makes a Good Backup Appliance include: Part 1 – Understanding the appeal of PBBAs (turnkey solutions)Part 2 – Basic guidance on the value-prop of PBBAsPart…
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