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ROBO Management
Includes WAFS, Wide Area Data Services or WDS, Replication.
Remote Offices have been the bane of IT for decades. Issues surrounding performance, collaboration, bandwidth management and latency abound. In this area of research Taneja Group analysts define a variety of new technologies and their pros and cons, the issues they solve, the players that are active and how they differentiate themselves from each other. Taneja Group analysts also provide guidance to IT as it struggles to evaluate new technologies and implement these new technologies in a coherent manner.
Riverbed Raises the Ante Again in WDS with RiOS 5.0
In distributed enterprises, a majority of employees work outside of major data center locations. Mobile workers with laptops may attach to corporate networks through the internet from anywhere, and remote office and branch office (ROBO) workers typically require a certain amount of IT infrastructure to meet their local computing requirements. If there’s one thing that all of these workers share, it’s a desire for high performance computing. This gave rise to the wide area data services (WDS) market in the 2004-2005 time frame, with its promise of providing LAN-like performance across wide area networks (WANs). WAN acceleration products, which shipped earlier than 2004, really provided a subset of the functionality that WDS products do, and WDS solutions present a much more comprehensive approach to solving the WAN performance issue for distributed enterprises.
Game On: Software as a Service Meets Storage
With the growing acceptance of the Software as a Service (SaaS) delivery model, many storage software companies are moving to gain a foothold in this emerging market.Taneja Group believes that the fundamentals are now aligned to allow for a more efficient delivery of SaaS storage software services. Growth acceleration and market consolidation are clear signs that the SaaS storage services market has reached an inflection point and is poised to enter a more rapid growth phase.
EMC Acquires Mozy
On October 1, 2007, EMC announced a definitive agreement to acquire on-demand data protection vendor Berkeley Data Systems for $76M. Berkeley Data Systems is a privately held company that offers the Mozy on-demand, remote data protection service. On-demand data protection vendors provide backup, recovery, and archiving software as a remote service. Application data is backed up to one of their secure sites as a replacement for local backup software. This delivery model is often referred to as Software as a Service (SaaS). Mozy is one of the recognized leaders in the emerging on-demand backup market with over 500,000 protected users spanning consumers, small business and larger enterprises.
IBM Acquires Arsenal Digital
On December 6, 2007, IBM announced a definitive agreement to acquire on-demand data protection vendor Arsenal Digital for an undisclosed amount. Arsenal Digital is a privately held company located in Cary, North Carolina. On-demand data protection vendors provide backup, recovery, and archiving software as a remote service. Application data is backed up to one of their secure sites as a replacement for local backup software. This delivery model is often referred to as Software as a Service (SaaS). Arsenal Digital is one of the recognized leaders in the emerging on-demand backup market with over 3400 customers and 20PB of data storage in more than 50 data centers world wide.
Oracle VM: Bringing Server Virtualization into the Data Center
Opinion piece on the anticipated industry impact of Oracle VM
Asempra BCS - Continuous Availability
The reality today is that too many data protection platforms targeted at the small and medium enterprise (SME) market fail to deliver basic capabilities with the ease of use, speed, and flexibility necessary to provide the holistic, effective data protection demanded. What the SME requires is a new approach to data protection that is easy to use and ensures the business that both the application and data remain available. We’ve identified this approach to data protection as Continuous Availability.