Data Protection and Business Continuance Report
Products and Market Opportunity
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Forces Driving New Requirements
Protecting Data has become number one concern for most enterprises, following the terrorist attacks, viruses, floods and other natural disasters of the past 18 months. In a survey conducted in May 2002 by Peripheral Concepts, Inc., IT managers singled out backup as number one problem for which they would be willing to spend money if it gets solved. Protecting data remains the single most costly storage administration task. While backup and other data protection tools are gaining capabilities in capacity, automation, and resilience, today's companies are still faced with an unacceptable level of recovery failures.
Data continues to grow in spite of the economic slowdown. Market driven companies are transforming themselves into information-driven enterprises where consistent and comprehensive information about customers, markets, competitors, products and technologies acts as a catalyst driving all processes and activities. Operations and/or legal requirements force businesses to keep data for years, adding more demand for saving and archiving data. While overall data continue to grow at least 50% every year, reference or fixed-content data is found to grow faster than active data.
Business environments require continuous operation, rapid processing of transactions and the assurance of data integrity. Online businesses must be open to their customers 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, have accurate data about their services, and have the capability to process customer inquiries and purchases without interruption. Recent disasters painfully witnessed the weaknesses in all aspects of data protection and security, and showed that recovery and business resumption strategies of most businesses are inadequate for survival.
Data is networked and accessed from multiple platforms. Storage networking is the emerging model for storage subsystems which include SAN, NAS, DAS, switches, gateways, appliances, with a multitude of host and network interfaces. All this significantly increases the complexity of managing and sharing data, and opens new challenges for protecting data.
Data protection disciplines are somewhat disparate today. New techniques offer a more unified approach to data management, where disk subsystems play a major role. Disk drives are now configured in systems enabling a higher level of scalability and ease-of-management for protecting data, at competitive prices. Recent solutions combine the capacity of traditional archiving approaches with direct access to secondary disk and tape storage, delivering far lower recovery times. These movements represent major steps towards higher performance and more stringent norms for assuring the integrity of data. This is leading to the redesign and rethinking of data protection architectural concepts with new criteria for storing and accessing data.
All sites are concerned, from smaller businesses to large enterprises from various industries. Email is a typical example of an application that has become critical enough in small and midrange sites to require executives attention for protection. Examples of industries needing to archive large amounts of data are: manufacturers that must keep CAD and CAM files for servicing parts for years, financials institution that have legal requirements to keep track of transactions and checks, retail businesses for their customer relation management, insurance companies, education, media (TV, newspapers, music records,...) health related services, not to mention data intensive industries such as weather forecast, geological, astronomy, seismic, or surveillance industries
Data management is entering a new era, where an IT manager can provide any component of data protection as a service to internal or external clients, with commitment to Service Level Agreements (SLA) where charge-back and costs play a critical role.
Data protection has grown to be the most critical issue facing the IT industry today.
SUMMARY
"DISK-BASED BACKUP AND disaster protection POISED FOR MAJOR GROWTH"
Fueled by consistent needs for quicker recovery and increased reliability, disk-based solutions will revolutionize traditional backup and disaster protection procedures and policies. Users can select among several alternatives, ranging from a simple software that emulates tape to complete appliances that offer continuous backup and various levels of replication.
IT managers are quite unanimous in recognizing the advantages of disk over tape, but cost is seen as a big deterrent, though not the only one. Many IT managers estimate that reliability and/or performance would prevent them from using ATA drives. "while it is true that ATA drives don't offer the same functionality, vendors have not done a good job educating the user. In spite of this, volumes of ATA drives are soaring, primarily in the large sites, and the potential in the midrange remains untapped" says Farid Neema, president of Peripheral Concepts, Inc.
Data replication is vital for disaster recovery purposes. Until now, enterprises have had to pay a high premium for proprietary storage products from a handful of storage vendors. "Open" solutions are now available. Remote Replication is poised for significant growth.
Recent regulations are forcing businesses to archive data and retrieve it quickly. Automatic active archiving and content-addressed storage are deemed very important.
Enterprises looking to consolidate large, heterogeneous environments have been the first to adopt virtual tape technology. But midrange sites using virtual tape offer great market potential
With the exception of critical applications which consume only a fraction of an IT operation’s storage capacity, the bulk of backup is still very much handled the traditional way with incremental and full backups, with tape being a prevalent media. So, tape will remain a key component in the storage hierarchy for the foreseeable future, but library vendors better be attentive to the new movements if they want to stay in the run
The report entitled "Data Protection and Business Continuance – Products and Market Opportunities" is now available. Its conclusions and forecasts are based on extensive surveys of end-user and analysis of vendor’s products and strategies
2003 Data Protection Report
Data Protection and Business Continuance-
Executive Summary
Market Overview
Backup
Backup with Disk
Archiving
Business continuance and Disaster Recovery
Brief Coverage
Glossary
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