There are two assumptions that IT professionals need to exercise caution before making when evaluating cloud data protection products. One is to assume all products share some feature or features in common. The other is to assume that one product possesses some feature or characteristic that no other product on the market offers. As DCIG reviews its recent research into the cloud data protection products, one cannot make either one of these assumptions, even on features such as deduplication, encryption, and replication that one might expect to be universally adopted by these products in comparable ways.
Evaluating product features, comparing prices, and doing proofing of concepts are important steps in the process of adopting almost any new product. But once one completes those steps, the time arrives to start to roll the product out and implement it. In this second installment of my interview series with System Architect, Fidel Michieli, he shares how his company gained a comfort level with Cohesity for backup and disaster recovery (DR) and how broadly it decided to deploy the product in the primary and secondary data centers.
Hyperconverged infrastructure solutions stand poised to disrupt traditional IT architectures in every way possible. Combining compute, data protection, networking, memory, scale out, storage, and virtualization on a single platform, they deliver the benefits of traditional IT infrastructures without their associated complexities. But as organizations look to consolidate on hyperconverged infrastructure solutions, they need data protection services such as Pivot3’s Quality of Service (QoS) feature now found on its vSTAC SLX Hyperconverged product that enables organizations to better protect their applications.
Backup software has traditionally been one of the stickiest products in organizations of all sizes in art because it has been so painful to deploy and maintain. After all, once it was installed and sort of working, no organization wanted to subject itself to that torture again.
Backup software has traditionally been one of the “stickiest” products in organizations of all sizes in art because it has been so painful to deploy and maintain that, once installed and sort of working, no organization wanted to subject itself to that process again. But in recent years as backup has become easier to install and maintain, swapping it out for another or consolidating multiple backup software solutions down to single one becomes much more plausible. This puts new impetus on backup software providers to introduce new features into their products to keep them relevant and “sticky” in their customer environments longer term.
There is backup and then there is backup. To meet the backup and recovery needs of today’s organizations, they need to verify that the selected backup appliance includes the features needed to protect their environment today and positions them to meet their needs into the foreseeable future. In this third installment of DCIG’s interview with STORServer President Bill Smoldt, he describes the new must-have features that backup appliances must offer.
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