DCIG, Inc. and SMB Research Announce Insider’s Guide to Evaluating Virtual Server Backup Software
Today DCIG and SMB Research are pleased to jointly announce the availability of a new, comprehensive 2011 Virtual Server Backup Software Buyer's Guide that weights, scores and ranks over 20 virtual server backup software products. This Buyer's Guide gives small, medium and large enterprises the resources they need to assist them in making what is becoming one of their most critical buying decisions: procuring a solution that protects the data of their virtualized application servers.
Austin, TX, December 17, 2010 --(PR.com)-- Newest, Comprehensive Resource Guide Provides Users With Industry’s First Report on Offerings to Backup, Protect and Recover in Virtualized Environments
For the first time, users have a comprehensive Buyer’s Guide for Virtual Server Backup Software to assist them in the all-important buying decision while removing the mystery behind which choice is best suited for their needs. Designed to take out the heavy lifting needed to best understand what solutions exist that are ideally suited to handle key management and technology functions in virtualized server environments, this first Annual Virtual Server Backup Software Buyer’s Guide is an “at-a-glance” comparison of the vendor landscape and will serve as a complement for deep evaluations and due diligence needed to determine a user’s specific needs.
In a collaboration between DCIG, LLC, and SMB Research, 30 different offerings and solutions were researched with 130 different criteria across seven categories were weighed, scored and ranked. Solutions were ranked “Best-in-Class,” “Recommended,” “Excellent,” “Good,” and “Basic” across functionality and capability with the intent to provide an “at-a-glance” comparison from which users can select the most appropriate solution for their existing needs.
“The number one complaint we hear from end users is that there is no easy way to quickly compare and contrast key features and functions across a number of available solutions,” said Jerome Wendt, co-author and founder, DCIG, LLC. “When we started putting the Buyer’s Guides together, it’s always been with this overall intent in mind. Give end users a resource to help them make better decisions for what they need. We feel with this latest Buyer’s Guide, we are doing just that for users looking for ways to best handle their virtual server software backup and recovery needs.”
Observations from questionnaire responses and end user conversations netted a few surprises, including:
Some 46% of the software vendors participating in this Buyers guide offer their solutions both as stand-alone software products, or bundled in an appliance.
Over 45% of vendors report that they do not do mirror backups.
Nearly 80% of the software solutions are able to do object-level recovery.
75% of the vendors in this Buyers Guide offer source-based deduplication.
Nearly 60% of vendors claim to be able to alert you if your tape libraries are approaching capacity (compared to 85% of vendors for disk libraries.)
70% of vendors provide the capability to auto-discover new Guest VMs.
More than 60% of the vendors in the Buyer’s Guide do not presently offer what are universally considered to be best-in-class features, including:
Backup software’s administration function prioritize a server that has gone the longest since its last backup
Detect servers backing up significantly more data than previously and provide alerting
Integration with VMware’s Change Block Tracking
Integration with VMware vCenter Converter
Ability to multiplex concurrent backups to a single tape drive
Availability
The 2011 Virtual Server Backup Software Buyer’s Guide may be downloaded from CommVault Systems, Inc.’s website at http://info.commvault.com/forms/DCIG-2011-VSBS-Buyers-Guide-Pt1?cmpgn=70140000000MKmL
Resources:
DCIG Blog: http://www.dciginc.com
SMB Research Blog: http://smbresearch.net/blog/
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About DCIG
DCIG, LLC, is an analyst firm with headquarters in Texas, focusing on archive, backup, retrieval and storage systems. DCIG’s analysts blend analysis, journalism, advertising and marketing into compelling blog entries at www.dciginc.com as well as journalistic writings with leading trade and industry publications. DCIG’s goal is to provide evaluations and interview content on sponsoring and non-sponsoring companies to consumers, public relations firms, business analysts and other companies. DCIG distributes industry, company and product analysis by way of viral marketing and community building using the burgeoning BLOG infrastructures created worldwide.
About SMB Research
SMB Research LLC, provides research, analysis, insight, and technology advisory for enterprises, and software and technology vendors, who need highly focused and specialized, and high-touch, assistance on-demand from experienced industry analysts. Based in Boston, Mass., SMB Research focuses on the emerging, and small-to-medium(SMB)-large enterprise segment, companies with $1M to $1B in revenues - or any company looking for exceptional, "concierge-level" technology analysis.
Media contacts:
Jim Nash Robert Eastman
DCIG, LLC SMB Research, LLC
952.442.8608 781.904.0408 x734
jim.nash@dciginc.com reastman@smbresearch.net
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For the first time, users have a comprehensive Buyer’s Guide for Virtual Server Backup Software to assist them in the all-important buying decision while removing the mystery behind which choice is best suited for their needs. Designed to take out the heavy lifting needed to best understand what solutions exist that are ideally suited to handle key management and technology functions in virtualized server environments, this first Annual Virtual Server Backup Software Buyer’s Guide is an “at-a-glance” comparison of the vendor landscape and will serve as a complement for deep evaluations and due diligence needed to determine a user’s specific needs.
In a collaboration between DCIG, LLC, and SMB Research, 30 different offerings and solutions were researched with 130 different criteria across seven categories were weighed, scored and ranked. Solutions were ranked “Best-in-Class,” “Recommended,” “Excellent,” “Good,” and “Basic” across functionality and capability with the intent to provide an “at-a-glance” comparison from which users can select the most appropriate solution for their existing needs.
“The number one complaint we hear from end users is that there is no easy way to quickly compare and contrast key features and functions across a number of available solutions,” said Jerome Wendt, co-author and founder, DCIG, LLC. “When we started putting the Buyer’s Guides together, it’s always been with this overall intent in mind. Give end users a resource to help them make better decisions for what they need. We feel with this latest Buyer’s Guide, we are doing just that for users looking for ways to best handle their virtual server software backup and recovery needs.”
Observations from questionnaire responses and end user conversations netted a few surprises, including:
Some 46% of the software vendors participating in this Buyers guide offer their solutions both as stand-alone software products, or bundled in an appliance.
Over 45% of vendors report that they do not do mirror backups.
Nearly 80% of the software solutions are able to do object-level recovery.
75% of the vendors in this Buyers Guide offer source-based deduplication.
Nearly 60% of vendors claim to be able to alert you if your tape libraries are approaching capacity (compared to 85% of vendors for disk libraries.)
70% of vendors provide the capability to auto-discover new Guest VMs.
More than 60% of the vendors in the Buyer’s Guide do not presently offer what are universally considered to be best-in-class features, including:
Backup software’s administration function prioritize a server that has gone the longest since its last backup
Detect servers backing up significantly more data than previously and provide alerting
Integration with VMware’s Change Block Tracking
Integration with VMware vCenter Converter
Ability to multiplex concurrent backups to a single tape drive
Availability
The 2011 Virtual Server Backup Software Buyer’s Guide may be downloaded from CommVault Systems, Inc.’s website at http://info.commvault.com/forms/DCIG-2011-VSBS-Buyers-Guide-Pt1?cmpgn=70140000000MKmL
Resources:
DCIG Blog: http://www.dciginc.com
SMB Research Blog: http://smbresearch.net/blog/
Tweet this: DCIG and SMB Research announce availability of comprehensive 2011 Virtual Server Backup Software Buyer's Guide.- http://bit.ly/g6m3X0
About DCIG
DCIG, LLC, is an analyst firm with headquarters in Texas, focusing on archive, backup, retrieval and storage systems. DCIG’s analysts blend analysis, journalism, advertising and marketing into compelling blog entries at www.dciginc.com as well as journalistic writings with leading trade and industry publications. DCIG’s goal is to provide evaluations and interview content on sponsoring and non-sponsoring companies to consumers, public relations firms, business analysts and other companies. DCIG distributes industry, company and product analysis by way of viral marketing and community building using the burgeoning BLOG infrastructures created worldwide.
About SMB Research
SMB Research LLC, provides research, analysis, insight, and technology advisory for enterprises, and software and technology vendors, who need highly focused and specialized, and high-touch, assistance on-demand from experienced industry analysts. Based in Boston, Mass., SMB Research focuses on the emerging, and small-to-medium(SMB)-large enterprise segment, companies with $1M to $1B in revenues - or any company looking for exceptional, "concierge-level" technology analysis.
Media contacts:
Jim Nash Robert Eastman
DCIG, LLC SMB Research, LLC
952.442.8608 781.904.0408 x734
jim.nash@dciginc.com reastman@smbresearch.net
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