- Originally Posted by Tony Cerqueira on Tue, Jan 05, 2010 @ 07:10 PM
The terrible inefficiency of Legacy Backup has created new markets and new companies over the past decade in the storage backup space. Many are fixes applied to Legacy Backup itself, many others are another form of Legacy Backup, that solve some issues for a key market or vertical. Many have been proven to solve real world problems, caused, of course, by Legacy Backup.
So, what is Legacy Backup? You are probably using it right now in your data center, your remote office, or your SMB, and most certainly, in your enterprise. It’s a product that protects your data by doing several things based on a schedule, then sends a copy of some processed data to disk or tape. Unfortunately, it batch copies data, creates massive and unnecessary duplication of data, and has no ability to share its repository, its processes, policies, metadata, data movement, or any of its significant infrastructure with other data protection products (like CDP, Replication, Archive, etc.).
The great thing about inefficiency is that it creates need. And where there is need, there is opportunity. But the reason for the need, it is now being learned, is that Legacy Backup is the problem. Like any boom or bubble, Legacy Backup will . . . utlimately . . . pop.
Tags: archive, backup, data change detection, data classification, data policy management, data restore, data storage, dedupe, deduplication, disaster recovery