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The State Of Enterprise Backup
Backup is often called broken or otherwise denigrated, but our survey showed that it's alive and well. Here's a look at backup practices in the enterprise today.
Howard Marks
September 27, 2016
8 Slides
A popular catch phrase among technology pundits these days is "backup is broken." While it's easy to argue that backup is broken, the reality is that no single technology in today's data center is as important to continuing operations. It might be true that traditional file-by-file backup to tape is too slow and inflexible to meet the modern data center's dynamic needs. However, that doesn't mean that backup technology as a whole is no longer relevant.
At the same time, backup vendors trumpet how wonderful each new technology, or even each release, is. If you don't roll out the forklifts, you're falling behind.
We wanted to cut through the hype and overused phrases of the vendors and pundits to see how real IT teams are protecting their data. We polled 437 IT pros in our third InformationWeek Backup Technologies Survey; all of those surveyed are involved with the evaluation, selection, or use of backup technologies.
Contrary to the popular meme, the survey showed that backup is far from broken. IT pros are pleased with their backup systems even while they might not be diligent in protecting their virtual machines and remote offices or performing enough tests. Let's take a look at the survey findings.
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