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Backup and recovery in 2013 ExaGrid Systems has published its top five predictions for changes in the worldwide backup and recovery market in 2013. As organizations cope with data growth and look to gain greater operational efficiency and increased value from IT investments, ExaGrid has identified the following trends as ones that will continue transforming backup and recovery in the coming year: Disk continues to replace tape: The movement away from tape as a primary backup target to disk-based systems with deduplication as a primary backup target will accelerate. The market for purpose-built disk backup appliances will approach $3 billion dollars in annual revenues, according to IDC. Small and medium sized businesses look to the cloud for primary backups: Small businesses across all industries will continue to turn to a series of cloud providers for their end-to-end backup needs, including using the cloud as the primary backup target. Mid-market to enterprise will consider cloud for disaster recovery: Mid-market to enterprise companies will begin to investigate selective use of the cloud for storing disaster recovery copies of their backup data. These enterprises recognise the cloud cannot serve as the primary target (as it can for small business) due to the logistics of initial backup and subsequent recoveries; so initially, the cloud will serve as a repository for lower priority data and longer term archiving of backup. Instant recovery will gain broader adoption: Data protection software products will continue to bring innovative features to market that allow customers to instantly leverage their disk-based backups in production in the event of failure, versus going through prolonged restore procedures. Users will benefit from significantly reduced downtime—typically in minutes with instant recovery from disk backup, instead of hours—and therefore increased productivity. Instant recovery of virtual machines is a key example of this growing trend. Advanced capabilities bring backup window relief: IT professionals will continue to leverage features that reduce the need to move full copies of data during backups, providing continued relief to the backup window problem. The use of synthetic techniques to create full recovery points will continue, driving increased adoption of deduplication in disk-based backup storage appliances. •Date: 3rd Jan 2013 • World •Type: Article • Topic: ICT continuity
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