trends in data protection with dcig

Trends in Data Protection with DCIG

December 17, 2014

Jerome Wendt, DCIG and Christophe Bertrand, Arcserve

Meet our Presenters

Jerome Wendt, DCIGPresident/Lead Analyst

Christophe Bertrand, ArcserveVP Product Marketing

Aligning Your Expectations of a Data Protection Solution with

the Realities of Today’s Trends

CURRENT TRENDS IN DATA PROTECTION

By Jerome M WendtPresident & Lead Analyst

Organizations have more choices in providers and products than ever before when it comes to selecting a data protection solution

• 26 virtual server backup software solutions from 22 different providers*

• 47 deduplicating backup appliances from ten (10) different providers*

• 72 integrated backup appliances from 14 different providers*

• These numbers do NOT include the growing number of deduplicating and integrated backup appliances also available as virtual appliances

*Source: DCIG Buyer’s Guides

Decisions, Decisions, Decisions

More features and options being hyped and/or offered:

• All-inclusive licensing

• Available in physical or virtual appliances (or both!)

• Backup, data storage and recovery in the cloud

• Deduplication

• Instant restores

• Snapshots at host and array levels

Decisions, Decisions, Decisions

• Which of the features onthese products are real?

• If real, how many productsoffer them?

Toughest Questions to Answer

1. All-inclusive Licensing

2. Appliances – Physical and Virtual

3. Single Management Console for Data Protection

4. Recovery in the Cloud

Current Trends in Data Protection

TREND #1

All-Inclusive Licensing

TREND #1

Time to Vote!

TREND #1All-Inclusive Licensing

• Definition• All features included with the product acquisition price

• More Hype than Reality• DCIG does see all-inclusive licensing but only on a

relatively small percentage of available offerings• Common for start-ups or vendors looking to increase

market share to offer this as an option

• Reality• Bundle most commonly used features• Charge extra for specialized features

Source: DCIG

Deduplication NAS Interface Device Management Replication Backup Acceleration Encryption0%

20%

40%

60%

80%

100%

120%

Deduplicating Backup AppliancesBundled Software Licenses


Source: DCIG

All Deduplication Management Console

Replication Encryption OS Agent Software0%

20%

40%

60%

80%

100%

120%

Integrated Backup AppliancesBundled Software Licenses


Observations

• Available from only a few providers

• Licenses may be capacity-based• i.e. if you only have a 1 TB license, features are only available

for that terabyte of protected data

• Vendors measure capacity in two ways– Data under management before it is protected– Data under management after it is protected– The latter is generally the more favorable licensing option

• Unrestricted licensing (not tied to capacity) few and far between• If a vendor offers it, the devil is in the details


TREND #2

Physical & Virtual Appliances

TREND #2

Time to Vote!

• Definition• Physical or virtual machine preconfigured to run data

protection and/or recovery software

• Physical Appliances a Force in Data Protection• More than $3 billion spent on purpose built backup

appliances (PBBAs) in last 12 months*

• Virtual Appliances Coming On• Not included in totals above• Virtual appliances becoming more commonly available

*Source: Published IDC figures, 4 quarters ending Q2 2014

TREND #2Physical & Virtual Appliances

Source: DCIG 2014-15 Virtual Server Backup Software Buyer’s Guide

Virtual Appliance Physical Appliance Third Party (VAR, OEM)0%

10%

20%

30%

40%

50%

60%

Virtual Server Backup SoftwareAppliance Availability

Backup software available in a physical and/or virtual appliance form factor


Observations

• Accelerate backup software acquisition and deployment

• Software providers taking time to introduce physical appliances as they want to do it right

• Those that do offer physical appliance have seen rapid end user adoption

• Expect to see more backup software providers offer both physical and virtual appliances

• 30% of deduplicating backup appliance providers offer virtual appliances


TREND #3

Single Management Console for

Data Protection

TREND #3

Time to Vote!

DefinitionConsolidated, simplified management console to manage backup and recovery – physical, virtual or both

TREND #3Single Management Console for Data Protection

Motivating Factors• Physical backup here to stay for foreseeable future

• Centralize backup data for physical and virtual apps

• Create common body of backup expertise


Motivating Factors (continued)

• Deploy right tool to solve specific backup or recovery challenge regardless if physical or virtual application

• Simplified licensing

• More recovery options• P2P, P2V, V2P, V2V• Physical or Virtual -> Cloud


• Integrating various, existing backup and recovery technologies under a single console

• Arcserve

• Bundling multiple, complementary products under a single SKU managed through a single interface

• Dell

• Unitrends

• Creating a data protection virtualization layer

• Leverages existing, in-place backup software

• Overlay it with additional, specific backup functionality (eg. VM backup) and centrally manage all backups

• Cobalt Iron/IBM TSM


• An emerging trend

• Facilitates taking a best-of-breed approach to physical and virtual data protection

• All products are in various states of developing integrated management interface

• Difficult to objectively measure integration

• Minimally test drive integration or get a demo


TREND #4

Recoveryin the Cloud

TREND #4

Time to Vote!

Definition

Store and then recover your data with a 3rd party cloud provider and even potentially recover an entire application or even your entire data center at the cloud provider’s site

TREND #4Recovery in the Cloud

*Source: Evolve IP Cloud of Dreams Survey: The Adoption of Cloud Services - 2014

Cloud Adoption is Real and GrowingRecent Survey of 1,257 IT Professionals Revealed:

• 88% believe the future of IT is in the cloud*

• 81% have deployed at least one service in the cloud*

• 73% cite disaster avoidance/recovery and business continuity the #1 benefit of moving to the cloud*


*Source: Evolve IP Cloud of Dreams Survey: The Adoption of Cloud Services - 2014

The Big ChallengeThe Challenge is Choice:

• Types of Clouds

• Underlying Technology

• Providers/Hosts

62% would prefer to rely on a single cloud provider.*


Source: DCIG

Amazon S3 EMC Atmos Evault Cloud Microsoft Azure Proprietary Rackspace0%

10%

20%

30%

40%

50%

60%

Integrated Backup AppliancesCloud Provider Support


Source: DCIG

Amazon S3 ATS Cloud ATT Synaptics Proprietary Q-Cloud Rackspace0%

5%

10%

15%

20%

25%

Deduplicating Backup AppliancesCloud Provider Support


Source: DCIG

Amazon S3 EMC Atmos Google Microsoft Azure Proprietary Rackspace0%

5%

10%

15%

20%

25%

30%

35%

40%

45%

50%

Virtual Server Backup SoftwareCloud Provider Support


Observations

• All sized enterprises view the cloud as the future of IT

• Midsized enterprises ($1M - $1B in revenue) are particularly looking at recovery in the cloud

• New providers and capabilities becoming available all of the time

• Recovery in the cloud and the capabilities available are a mixed bag

• Using a single cloud provider is probably NOT yet a reality for most organizations


• Two of the trends are more hype than reality• All-inclusive licensing • Recovery in the cloud • Provide with extreme caution

• Single management interface for physical and virtual data protection and virtual appliances are rapidly maturing and gaining momentum• Integration may still be at the PowerPoint level• Proceed with caution

• Physical appliances are the most mature trend and may be confidently adopted

Final Thoughts

Questions & Answers

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