New backup technologies are ready for mass adoption, and they're not just for early adopters. Early adopters helped give these technologies a jumpstart because they were comfortable purchasing products from startups and didn't think twice about being the first company on the block to try something new. But pioneers are typically a small contingent with many more potential users choosing a "wait and see" approach. So, even as some of these newer products achieve technological acclaim, they may barely make a dent in the overall backup market.
But recent events have accelerated the adoption -- and perceived maturity -- of some backup technologies. Smaller vendors have been acquired by their bigger brethren, and enabling technologies have emerged that ease the implementation of these products.
We'll look at five key backup technology advancements:
- Data deduplication
- Data protection management
- Continuous data protection
- Synthetic backups
- Virtual server backup
We'll explain how these technologies have changed backup, and describe how four of the leading backup software vendors -- CommVault Systems Inc., EMC Corp., IBM Corp. and Symantec Corp. -- have implemented these new backup technologies. That's not to suggest that other backup vendors don't also offer these
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features, but these four are among the acknowledged backup software market leaders with the products readers ask about most often.
This was first published in March 2010