Taneja Group Technology Analysts Delivering True Enterprise CDT

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InMage DR Scout: Delivering True Enterprise CDT May 2007 The concept of Continuous Data Technologies (CDT) emerged on the scene two years ago, and is now transforming the data storage industry. Nearly every major storage vendor has one or more CDT products in their offering roadmap, in addition to a vital community of emerging vendors who are the true innovators in this space. Of course, all of these solutions can vary widely in architecture and the capabilities that they deliver. We find that this range of choice leaves technology managers looking at a complex puzzle as they try to figure out how to employ CDT in the enterprise. We believe that part of the reason for this puzzle is that many CDT solutions are focused on solving specific focused problems, such as file restoration, or MS Exchange recovery. These solutions certainly have extreme merit for those purposes, but, as we have repeatedly stated in our research, we believe CDT is a fundamental "core" technology that has potential to more broadly redefine how storage is managed in the enterprise. When implemented in the right way with a broad range of functionality, CDT can free enterprises from some of the complexity inherent in storage environments, and solve fundamental IT challenges that organizations address today through a large number of different tools: data protection, snapshots, replication, disaster recovery, and testing, to name just a few. InMage's DR-Scout is one solution that demonstrates precisely how this broad range of converged capabilities can provide new opportunities for enterprise storage management. In this brief, we take a detailed look at InMage's DR Scout enterprise-class CDT offering and provide a detailed look at how the company plans to impact the broader market in coming quarters. First Things First: Why CDT? that CDT can address from a common architecture include: At their most basic common level, . Continuous Data Protection (CDP) Continuous Data Technologies (CDT) all . Continuous Data Replication (CDR) provide an unbroken, seamless data capture . Continuous Data Imaging (CDI) stream for application data. That stream of data can then be moved, manipulated, and Unfortunately, the majority of today's CDT repurposed with an incredible amount of products are frequently limited in delivering flexibility. As Taneja Group has identified against all three of these capabilities previously, CDT is actually made up of a simultaneously. While the unified "enterprise number of more narrowly defined transformation" vision is now well planted in capabilities that revolve around the same the industry, the actual ability to deliver is core technology. These broad capabilities still a tall order for most vendors.
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For example, we see that the market is completely support the storage management inundated with solutions that focus only on needs of the medium and large enterprise, file-level CDP, or only on host-oriented CDR. data capture must guarantee that a specific Alas, a unified CDT platform is worth the APIT has complete integrity for the entire investment in R&D and entrepreneurial data set of a host system, application system, sweat, because it can greatly simplify and or enterprise. This capability is the enhance enterprise storage management. A foundation for replacing traditional snapshot truly mature CDT platform will bring a technology with Continuous Data Imaging common approach to delivering data (CDI). With integrity underlying CDI, protection, replication, and image enterprises are assured they have complete management. That would constitute a data for constructing single or multiple significant advance in simplicity for the images and are able to use CDT to perform enterprise, and win the hearts of IT teams recovery or reuse at a broader level without around the w... [download for more]