Data Protection and CDP: Industry Report

Data Protection and CDP

Product Type: Market Research Report
Published by: Peripheral Concepts, Inc.
Published: January 2007
Product Code: R3428-2

Description

This study discusses the results of a survey completed in November 2006 on Data protection, with a specific focus on Continuous Data Protection (CDP) It reveals that the number of sites with CDP implementations have grown from 34% last year to 43%. Plans for 2007 show that x% of the population will either implement it for the first time or extend its utilization, leaving x% with no plans to implement. This popularity and plan for implementation extends throughout site capacity tiers 2 to 4. The xxx industry is far ahead of other industries in their utilization of CDP, and xxx is the lowest user. On the average, the CDP system is used for x % of the data. X% of the population uses CDP for over 80% of their data.

Data protection has been the weakest link in the high-availability chain that conditions true business continuity. For the fourth consecutive year, a majority of respondents rank data protection highest among their storage management challenges, and data recovery stands out as the major data protection related problem for x% of the respondents, with recovery objectives (RTO and RPO) of less than 20 minutes.

Snapshot techniques and Continuous Data Protection (CDP) come to the rescue, to meet critical business objectives that cannot be met in any other way. While many continue to use snapshot, one third of the users estimate CDP more apt to cover their needs, with ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) the most common CDP application. The survey examines IT managers preferences between Block, File and Application CDP.

CDP is transforming business continuity while greatly simplifying the data protection process, easing the administrator’s burden and ensuring compliance with SLAs and best practices. The Return on Investment (ROI) is estimated to be less than x years by 61% of the respondents.

Block-based CDP approaches work at the logical volume level. File-based CDP solutions work at the file-system level, keeping track of any changes to the file system, such as creation, deletion, or modification. Surveyed IT managers express preferences to xxx.

Demonstrated recovery capability, and xxx are most wanted criteria in selecting a product, Liability and compliance are major incentives. This is found to be the case practically throughout all site capacity tiers. It is also deemed essential that CDP integrate with existing software and hardware. xxx is at the top of the list of services the user wish to see combined with a CDP offering.

Data protection priorities in dealing with storage have remained relatively constant throughout the four years of our investigation, with one notable exception this year- xxx at the top of a series of problems tier 4 sites (51 to 200TB of disk capacity) experience in data protection. xxx appears ahead of backup reliability for that tier. For the first time, xxx also appears at the top of “all” storage priorities and problems that need resolution.

xxx is the most common CDP application. CDP usage extends beyond data protection. 80% of the Continuous Data Protection (CDP) implementations are also used to create copies of production data for xxx and other compliance related requirements.

The survey reveals that users want CDP to be easy to install, integrate with the rest of the systems software and not affect the overall performance. It must also scale so it can backup the entire population of vulnerable desktops and laptops in an enterprise. CDP must offer integration with xxx, eliminating any protection gap.

Adopting CDP software does not mean that IT organizations have to replace their total data protection infrastructure. Where traditional tape and replication technologies currently meet application.

availability requirements, business continues as usual. CDP is best-suited for xxx applications where x. It is also well-suited to data that is updated frequently. Where there is a need to balance an improved level of availability with familiar practices and procedures, then xxx may complement existing data protection procedures. The survey finds that xxx are used by a large number of sites

Table of Contents

INTRODUCTION
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
1- PROFILES - Site Profiles: Storage Profiles
2- DATA PROTECTION: Data Protection Management; Backup, RTO and RPO; Budgets and VARs
3- SNAPSHOT AND CDP
4- SURVEY QUESTIONNAIRE
5- AUTHOR’S PROFILE
6- OTHER PERIPHERAL CONCEPTS’ REPORTS
LIST OF FIGURES: 0- Executive Summary; 1- Site Profiles; 2- Data Protection; 3- Snapshot and CDP

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