- Originally Posted by Tony Cerqueira on Tue, Jan 12, 2010 @ 05:14 PM
Legacy Backup is a major market in the data protection space, and is still going strong. Regardless of its inefficiencies, people still buy it, and add onto their existing Legacy Backup environment. However, users are starting to take notice.
Every user backup forum will often point to lack of Legacy Backup products to deliver any upstream value, and their typical failure rates as a result of server-dependent architectures, and their terrible storage inefficiency.
In addition, many environmental factors have crept into the woodwork at user sites (business intelligence, eDiscovery needs, compliance requirements, etc.), and now that the paint is off, people are finally getting a look at what’s underneath the hood of Legacy Backup products. It won’t be long.
Deduplication was a key first mover that really made people question the insanity of Legacy Backup. Why create something so inherently inefficient that it required such a huge level of clean-up? (remember, 20X or greater is the typical deduplication cleanup rate).
Cloud architectures will soon expose even more inadequacies in the Legacy Backup camp. Forcing many vendors to accomodate Cloud storage in strange, non-optimal ways.
Virtual machine sprawl has added more headaches to the Legacy Backup camp because of I/O and overhead issues created by Legacy Backup, and multiplied by VM’s.
Additionally, users are becoming more reliant on other tools within the market to make up for the lack of flexible recovery capability of Legacy Backup. CDP, Replication, Bare Metal Restore, and others, are coming into play in the mid-market. As are technologies that help manage information; index/search tools, data classification, policy management, and tools that control data for added layers of security or monitoring.
There are many others, but these ones stick out. When things be
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