Vizioncore Paving The Way For Image-Based Backups To Replace File-Based Backup Methodology By VSM News Staff published: Tuesday, January 26 2010
Backup 2.0, The Next Generation In
Data-Protection Technology For Virtual And Physical Server Environments,
Generates Savings Of $15 for Every $1 Invested
Hoffman Estates, IL, January 26, 2010 – Vizioncore Inc.,
the market leader in virtualization management solutions, is again at the
forefront of major change in the industry by advancing the adoption of Backup
2.0 solutions. The Backup 2.0 campaign being introduced today by Vizioncore
offers to help educate administration teams on the advantages of using images to
reinvent data protection in all environments. This campaign is intended to
assist organizations in transforming their environments and gaining significant
cost-savings advantages in the process.
“Running separate backup jobs for each recovery scenario
is a legacy data protection model that is incompatible with the recovery needs
of today’s virtualized enterprise environments,” said Chris Wolf, senior analyst
at Burton Group. “Organizations are increasingly looking for solutions that
enable a myriad of recovery alternatives, such as a system image, single file,
or email message, from a single application-consistent backup image. Solutions
that meet these requirements are best positioned for long-term
success.”
Parag
Patel, vice president, alliances, VMware, adds: "Vizioncore continues to offer
vital innovations in data and systems management for VMware environments. The
Backup 2.0 campaign will help administrators better understand how to use images
as a basis for data protection, and combined with VMware vSphere™, help
customers on the journey to cloud computing.”
Why Backup
2.0?
As
data center deployments become more and more complex, Backup 1.0 methods are
struggling to keep pace and are proving to be too expensive to operate and
maintain. Backup 1.0 methods also lack sufficient recovery options and are
impractical in virtual environments.
In
contrast, Backup 2.0 uses images to reinvent how data is collected, transmitted
and recovered, and the images are used to make backup copies rather than
individual files.
This
approach leads to many advantages:
- Ease-of-use: capturing images rather
than files is faster, easier and allows for more types of data to be
protected;
- Improved recovery speeds: Backup 2.0
uses a single backup image to deliver all types of recovery quickly and with
fewer resources consumed;
- Increased flexibility: Backup 2.0 can
image all environments, both physical and virtual;
- Lower costs: With Backup 2.0, data
protection infrastructure is streamlined, and backup agents as well as servers
are eliminated, which lowers costs and simplifies operations.
In
addition, Vizioncore studies show that the resulting ROI for image-based data
protection is significant: Organizations adopting Backup 2.0 solutions can
expect at least $15 returned for every $1 invested within the first year of
deployment.
Backup 2.0 – Features & Benefits
Because Backup 2.0 methods do not have to process the
thousands of discrete files that images actually contain, they work very
quickly. Recovery options are dramatically expanded to include the rapid
reinstatement of entire systems complete with applications as well as individual
data files or application objects.
“In
addition to the myriad of benefits a Backup 2.0 solution offers, the technology
more importantly allows companies to redirect IT budget funds allocated to data
protection towards more strategic initiatives,” said Chris Akerberg, President
and Chief Operating Officer for Vizioncore.
A
popular Backup 2.0 method is Direct-to-Target, which delivers improved data
compression, infrastructure consolidation and performance compared to
proxy-based Backup 2.0 methods. In this market, Vizioncore’s vRanger Pro Data
Protection Platform (DPP) solution is the leading Direct-to-Target Backup 2.0
product. As a comprehensive backup and recovery solution for virtual
infrastructures, vRanger Pro DPP complements existing data protection strategies
such as Backup 2.0 to help reduce the backup window with minimal impact on IT
resources.
For
more information on Backup 2.0, check-out Vizioncore’s resource center site at
http://vizioncore.com/backup20/ to access a blog series, whitepapers, details on
upcoming webinars and podcasts such as VMware’s “Understanding TCO & ROI for
VMware View 4 – Purpose Built for Desktops” at 11am CT on January 27 as well as
other resources. Also, sign-up for an upcoming webinar presented next month by
Vizioncore and Chris Wolf entitled: “Backup 2.0: How Virtualization Has Launched
Next Generation Strategies for Data Protection Technology.”
About Vizioncore
Inc.
Founded in 2002 and headquartered in Hoffman Estates,
IL, Vizioncore Inc. is a fully owned subsidiary of Quest Software (NASDAQ: QSFT),
a leading systems management vendor. Vizioncore’s operations span the
Americas, EMEA, Asia and
Australia. The company’s products
provide server virtualization management solutions that provide protection,
monitoring and administration of virtual systems while allowing customers to
extract the maximum return on their investment in virtualization. Vizioncore’s
products are built from the ground up to support virtual environments with none
of the legacy encumbrances of products built for physical servers. Over 19,500
organizations around the world, from SMBs to large-scale enterprises, use
Vizioncore’s products. Vizioncore operates independently and distributes its
products through an extended partner network of 2,200 value-added resellers
worldwide. For more information, please visit www.vizioncore.com or
www.vizioncorum.com , the official blogging site of Vizioncore
Inc.
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