Backup products have always sought to differentiate themselves by offering specific features that met different organizational needs. But at the end of the day, backup products primarily had to account for protecting the data that organizations had with these products placing a lower priority on recovery and cloud connectivity. Those days are largely over with all backup products (save a few) having transformed to offer cloud data protection with many of them providing a variety of cloud recovery options.
Ever since I got my first job in IT in the mid-1990’s, everyone has used a cloud in some form. Whether they referred to it as outsourcing, virtualization, central IT, or in some other way, the cloud existed and grew but it did little to stem the adoption of distributed computing. Yet at some point over the past few years, the parallel growth of these two technologies stopped and the cloud forged ahead. This shift indicates that companies have now fully embraced the cloud but remain unclear about how best and how soon to transition their IT infrastructure to the cloud and then manage it once it is there.
The business case for organizations with petabytes of file data under management to classify and then place it across multiple tiers of storage has never been greater. By distributing this data across disk, flash, tape and the cloud, they stand to realize significant cost savings. The catch is finding a cost-effective solution that makes it easier to administer and manage file data than simply storing it all on flash storage. This is where a solution such as what Quantum now offers come into play.
DCIG Buyer’s Guides
DCIG Buyer’s Guides have become a go-to resource for end-users, resellers and technology providers alike when making technology buying decisions or recommendations. The success of these Buyer’s Guides stems from the process that DCIG uses to first gather and synthesize disparate product data; the comprehensive set of information presented in each Buyer’s Guide; and, the presentation of the Buyer’s Guide itself. Select DCIG Buyer’s Guides are available for download at no charge to any end-user who registers for the DCIG Competitive Intelligence Portal (resellers and vendors may test drive it for up to 30 days).
DCIG Competitive Intelligence Suite
DCIG Competitive Intelligence Platform
The DCIG Competitive Intelligence Platform enables any organization to ask and answer the proper questions about any product in a particular technology sector and then objectively arrive at the most appropriate buying decision for its needs. The DCIG Competitive Intelligence Platform includes common technology questions that should be asked and the answers to them. It also includes the flexibility to:
- Introduce new questions and/or answers
- Score the answers to each question in a manner relevant to your environment
- Create separate surveys for each product evaluates
DCIG Competitive Intelligence Portal
The DCIG Competitive Intelligence Portal includes the following:
- Pre-existing product research in the form of previously published PDF versions of the DCIG Buyer’s Guides
- The DCIG Competitive Intelligence Portal, which provides access to all DCIG research about a particular topic. Users may generate reports that display DCIG’s overall product rankings and scores of these products as well as do head-to-head comparisons between them. These reports are generated on-the-fly and may be optionally saved as PDFs and shared with others.
DCIG Services for IT Professionals
The DCIG Competitive Intelligence Suite provides IT professionals with access to DCIG’s online, comprehensive research library that consists of the DCIG Competitive Intelligence Platform and the DCIG Competitive Intelligence Portal as well as access to DCIG’s analysts. The DCIG Competitive Intelligence Suite provides access to the analysis and analyst recommendations that enterprises of all sizes need when making technology buying decisions. The DCIG Competitive Intelligence Platform gives IT professionals the flexibility to create their own products questions and/or answers and then score the answers to these questions in a manner that are most relevant to their organization. The DCIG Competitive Intelligence Suite offers:
- Concurrent user access license(s) to the DCIG Competitive Intelligence Portal
- Single seat user access license(s) to the DCIG Competitive Intelligence Platform
- In-depth technical information on hundreds of technology products
- Access to and support by DCIG analysts
- Multi-tenancy so that any research developed by your organization may only be accessed and viewed by individuals authorized by your organization.
DCIG Services for Vendors and VARs
DCIG provides a variety of analyst offerings of which vendors and VARs may take advantage. In addition to the DCIG Competitive Intelligence Suite, which is unsponsored content that DCIG makes available to IT professionals, vendors and VARs (value-added resellers) as well as press and other industry analysts, DCIG makes the following sponsored analyst products specifically available to vendors and VARs. DCIG analyst products include:
- Blogging
- Customer Validations
- Executive Interviews
- Executive White Papers
- Webinars
- White Papers
- Lead Gen Programs based on DCIG Buyer’s Guides
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