Whenever you visit our websites, information may be collected using cookies and similar tools to improve your user experience and to enhance the performance of the website.
Closing this message means you accept the use of cookies.
Market Landscape Report: Data Protection Target Devices
ESG Market Landscape Report
May 22, 2013
This market landscape report examines how modernization trends are affecting the future of the disk-based backup target systems market. For decades, protecting electronic business data has been one of IT’s most essential responsibilities. In today’s information-intensive world, the importance of the task becomes even more obvious—as do the negative legal, reputational, and fiscal consequences that arise when data protection environments are not deployed and managed properly.
Page Count: 22
Table of Contents
Introduction: What Is a Disk-based Backup Target System?
Why These Devices Exist
What Is Wrong with the Term ‘Purpose-built Backup Appliance’?
Data Protection Is Driving the Need for Better Storage Strategies
Market Overview—the Differences Among Solutions Can Be Significant
Virtual Tape Libraries
Network File Shares
Software Solutions
Choosing a Dedupe Method
Dedupe Methods—What Versus Where
Is One Approach Better Than the Other?
Other Considerations When Comparing Disk Target Devices
Data Protection Target Device Market Trends and Situation Analysis
Deduplication Targets Are for Everyone
Virtualized Targets Are a Good Thing
20X Versus 95%—Do Deduplication Rates Matter?
Size Doesn’t Matter as Much as Scale Does
EMC Versus the World
What the Future Holds for Disk Targets
More Virtualized Target Appliances
More Integrated Backup Appliances, Along with (or Instead of) ‘Just’ Disk Targets
More Grid Architectures for Larger Enterprises’ Target Systems
A Resurgence for Tape as Tertiary Media
Better Integration Between Backup Software and Hardware Targets
Hardware-accelerated Agility for Better Restorations
More Convergence of Backup and Archive Through Technology, not Marketing
More Gateway Targets to External Storage
IT Will Continue to Seek Value That Goes Beyond Backup
The primary objective of this ESG research study was to survey Critical Infrastructure and Key Resources (CIKR) organizations in order to qualify and quantify the current status of their existing security profiles as well as their awareness of and…