The average org uses 2.8 backup products — which is one of many reasons why centralized purpose-built Protection Storage is critical to many Cyber Resilience strategies. Headed to Dell Tech World next week to hear the latest about Dell Technologies’ Power Protect portfolio and to engage the ecosystem built around Data Domain, including Commvault, Druva, HYCU Inc., IBM, and Wasabi Technologies. I’ll let you know what we talked about.
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According to DPM’s upcoming research, which will be released next month, the average organization runs 2.8 backup solutions. Only 7% rely on a single backup solution for everything.
If your environment includes backups from three or more solution stacks, you should seriously consider purpose built protection storage. There are many reasons for that, especially given the growing demands of cyber resilience.
But when you’re leveraging multiple backup software stacks as part of your resilience strategy, protection storage becomes a critical architectural component.
That’s a big reason why I’m looking forward to attending Dell Technologies World this week. When I first started attending, it was still called EMC World. Many enterprises, both then and now, view Data Domain as the gold standard for on premises protection storage.
Looking at the broader ecosystem of resilience vendors attending the event also helps explain why most organizations run multiple software stacks.
You might be using HYCU to protect all of the SaaS workloads your primary data center solution doesn’t cover. They just announced their Air offering, which is very exciting.
You might also be using Druva, which recently announced some really interesting synergies with Dataminr that, frankly, the nerd in me is very excited about. A SaaS control plane with local recovery performance? Yes, please.
Commvault and IBM’s data protection offerings also bring serious enterprise depth, and both have mature integrations with Data Domain. You should definitely stop by both of their booths.
Remember my cardinal rule: get your data out of the building.
So if you believe in purpose built protection storage like Data Domain on premises, then it becomes easy to understand why Wasabi is such a compelling option as a cloud repository.
There are plenty of other players as well, including Dell’s own data protection and cyber recovery software offerings.
My point is this: it takes a village. Villages are built on common ground, and for many enterprises, that common ground is Data Domain.
The village is gathering next week, and I’ll let you know what they talked about.
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