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IDC has found the need for faster backups and restore times has become a

significant customer pain point. In addition, customers are looking for data protection

solutions that are cost-effective and easily integrated into existing IT environments.

IDC research indicates that over the past several years, the drivers for using

integrated solutions for data protection and backup are a result of the following needs:

! Meet compressing backup windows

! Provide faster restore and recovery times

! Improve performance and utilization of backup and secondary storage resources

! Support disaster recovery strategies that include removable media

Data protection and data management continue to evolve and become more

sophisticated, especially for recovery and archiving. IDC has found that customer

priorities for data management are focused in two areas: operational efficiencies and

disaster recovery. Operational efficiencies include adding more capacity and

optimizing storage resources such as using data deduplication. Optimized storage

allows customers to do search and discovery more easily and efficiently in order to

perform ediscovery queries. In addition, faster access to information would aid R&D

efforts to mine critical information or historical data.

Disaster recovery primarily is reducing recovery and restore times as well as reducing

the backup window. Our research has discovered that customers are putting more

emphasis on disk-based solutions that are scalable, efficient, and optimized, especially

when they are considering the purchase of a data protection solution. However, many of

the existing solutions do not fully incorporate the tools necessary for data management,

data protection, long-term archive, and retention (see Figure 1).

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