Organizations Have More Choices Than Ever Before to Freely Move Applications Almost Anywhere, At Any Time With No Disruption to Operations

AUSTIN, TX – August 04, 2014 — /BackupReview.info/ — With projections that server workloads will be virtualized by more than 80 percent over the next two years, it comes as no surprise that the continued benefits of power reduction, hardware optimization, improved application availability and lower upfront capital and ongoing operational costs will help organizations virtualize more and in turn lead to the increased need to backup the growing amount of data that resides on virtual machines (VMs).

In the year since the last publication of the DCIG Buyer’s Guide for Virtual Server Backup software, there has been a steady stream of new software releases, industry consolidation and innovation that have pushed the boundaries of backing up and recovering data from virtual servers to the point it is today. Virtual-to-Physical (V2P) and Physical-to-Virtual (P2V) recovery is now standard on many products, along with VMware API for Data Protection (VADP) support, instant recovery, deduplication, vSphere integration and vCenter Server backup and restore. Many products now offer greater management functions for multi-hypervisor environments to the point where support for Hyper-V is approaching that of VMware. There is also increased interest and functionality to support connecting to cloud storage service providers to store data in the cloud.

“Organizations continue to look for faster, easier and simpler ways to deploy and manage their backup software,” said Charley McMaster, DCIG Analyst and co-author of the DCIG 2014-15 Virtual Server Backup Software Buyer’s Guide. “Coupled with the spread of virtualization, this need drives innovation in the solutions to backup, restore and recover data from virtual servers. With the release of this year’s Virtual Server Backup Software Buyer’s Guide, the competition was fierce. Two backup software providers moved up significantly in the rankings and one displaced the best-in-class from the prior two year’s Buyer’s Guides. As more of the data center is virtualized, IT users have ways to leverage their infrastructures in ways they only dreamed about before. To do that, they need to make sure they have the right virtual server backup solution in place. ”

For the DCIG 2014-15 Virtual Server Backup Software Buyer’s Guide, DCIG, LLC evaluated 26 offerings from 22 companies. After an initial survey containing more than 100 questions was completed, product capabilities were assessed based on a combination of data provided by the vendor, prior DCIG research, the analyst’s own knowledge of the product and information available in the public domain. Products were then evaluated on more than 150 features. After scores were compiled, products were ranked Best-in-Class, Recommended, Excellent, Good, or Basic across functionality and capability relative to the other products included in the Buyer’s Guide.

The intent for this Buyer’s Guide, as with all DCIG Buyer’s Guides, is to provide an “at-a-glance” comparison from which end users can select the most appropriate solution for their existing needs. This Buyer’s Guide also provides perspective on how solutions from less well known virtual server backup software solutions compare against established and better known brands.

The DCIG 2014-15 Virtual Server Backup Software Buyer’s Guide Top 10 solutions include (in alphabetical order): Acronis Backup for VMware; Asigra Cloud Backup; CA arcserve Unified Data Protection; CommVault Simpana 10; Dell NetVault Backup 10; EMC Avamar 7; HP Data Protector 8.1; Symantec NetBackup 7.6; Symantec Backup Exec 2014 V-Ray Edition; and Unitrends Certified Recovery Suite (UCRS).

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