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User Survey Analysis: Storage Software Needs Driven by Deduplication, Disk-Based Backup and Retention Policies
4 November 2009
 
Alan Dayley   Dave Russell  

A survey conducted at the Gartner IT Infrastructure, Operations and Management Summit in June 2009 reveals data deduplication trends, tape trends, backup retention policies and archiving momentum.




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Table of Contents


Key Findings

Recommendations

Overview and Survey Objective

Sample and Respondent Demographics

EMC Listed From Respondents as Most Meeting Their Needs for Storage Management Software Purchases, With IBM Gaining Traction

Most Organizations Go to Disk First, but 76% Still Use Tape During Backup Process

Target-Side Deduplication Is Easiest to Implement and Thus the Most Widely Used

Few Organizations Have Conducted Full Disaster Recovery Tests on Their x86 Server Virtualized Environment

More Organizations Are Moving to a Shorter Retention Policy for Backup Data

Most Organizations Do Not Use Backup to Retain Data for "Legal Hold" Reasons

File Archiving Is Catching Up With E-Mail Archiving as Technology That Is Being Implemented in the Archiving Space

Methodology

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Storage Management
Backup and Recovery
Data De-Duplication and Compression
Archiving and Content Storage




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