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Data reported by many sources shows that the economy is regaining its footing and it is just a matter of time when investments in IT products and services will increase. As organizations aggressively virtualize servers, backup becomes increasingly problematic. The benefits of higher server utilization and increased efficiency have a challenging side-effect, namely reducing the amount of physical resources available for CPU-intensive applications like backup. The result is that backup windows are tightening in many shops, and users are forced to sacrifice recovery point objectives (RPO) or deploy more physical resources to accommodate backup requirements. 1: Most IT organizations will transition from legacy backup tools to UNIFIED data protection to protect both virtual and physical servers. Most IT organizations will transition to unified backup & replication products that offer unified data protection strategy rather than just bundles of separate tools. The bundle of tools suggests that there are weak links in the bundles rather than have the best possible products included. Whereas, the unified software bundle will be engineered from the ground up to work in sync. Indeed a better choice. Backup is only one half of the equation. Recovery is the part of the equation that has to work. 2: Most Organizations in the IT world are transitioning to products that offer 100% Recoverability of the backup and in most cases it is not the legacy backup tools on the market today. Everyone is doing backup but most legacy backup tools cannot ensure recoverability of the backup files. What good is it if a backup is performed but can never be recoverable? This is something nobody expects but it happens all the time and it’s never a good thing to have a failed server and then you find out that your backup of this server cannot recover. Next generation backup products should be able to deliver a technology which tests and verifies backup files automatically- therefore ensuring “100% Recoverability”. 3: How backup vendors are adding value to the IT world: Deduplication processes arrive . Data deduplication is one way that some backup vendors are adding value. Deduplication basically is focused on the degree to which a customer is I/O bound and the degree to which source-side deduplication can eliminate backup bottlenecks. The source-side dedupe can be shown to eliminate I/O bottlenecks and increase ROI, the benefits are clear, however customers must rip and replace existing backup software. Sometimes this is not what they want to do. A new trend being observed is that data deduplication is being offered at the source directly embedded into traditional backup software; although it's somewhat less mature than source-side products that have been on the market for years. Nonetheless, the trends toward deduplication embedded within existing backup ease the pressure on users to choose between rip and replace and lower ROI. Check out a backup, replication and recovery vendor, AppAssure’s trial download software to see the future in action.
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