CA Global Study Reveals Most Companies are Willing to Switch Backup Vendors for Integrated Recovery Management
06 Avril 2009 - 3:00PM
PR Newswire (US)
Business Priorities, Integration Pain Points and Cost Reduction
Initiatives Motivate Change ISLANDIA, N.Y., April 6
/PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- CA (NASDAQ:CA) today announced the
results of a global study indicating that while most enterprise and
SMB IT organizations are satisfied with their current backup
product, 70% of them would consider switching to backup that is
integrated with other key recovery management functions, including
replication and continuous data protection (CDP). The study showed
that key business objectives, backup integration pain and cost
reduction initiatives are the top drivers behind their willingness
to switch. The study, conducted by TheInfoPro, an independent
research network and leading supplier of market intelligence for
the IT industry, interviewed 205 IT executives from SMB and
enterprise companies around the world, including North America,
Europe, Brazil and Japan. Respondents indicated that backup
integration with CDP and replication are among the top three
biggest pain points that would convince them to switch vendors. The
research also showed that using the same vendor for an integrated
backup and replication solution was the second most realistic
backup cost reduction strategy behind centralizing backup
management. CA commissioned the study to confirm market needs
driving its Recovery Management strategy, which it has continually
leveraged to help customers successfully meet key business
objectives in managing critical business information. Business
Priorities That Go Beyond Traditional Backup The study also
revealed that business priorities require data protection beyond
traditional backup, led by managing business continuity, quickly
recovering data and applications and maintaining application
availability - the drivers behind integrating CDP and replication
with backup. "The research indicates that better control over the
backup process and the ability to provide high availability and
rapid recovery of critical business information are high priorities
for IT organizations of all sizes in all geographies," said Eric
Pitcher, vice president, technology for Recovery Management at CA.
"The study clearly pointed to integrated Recovery Management
technologies as what IT staffers want to achieve those goals."
Criteria for Critical Business Information Protection and Recovery
According to the study, top backup vendor selection criteria
include the need to avoid costly server downtime, simplifying
management, supporting backup and replication of virtual machines,
protecting remote and branch office data, and meeting specific
recovery time objectives (RTO). Conversely, the study showed that
the lack of management support, staff limitations and difficulties
with change are the biggest constraints in improving backup
environments. "The study brings to light that IT organizations are
willing to make changes if they can cost effectively tackle top
data protection, business continuity and disaster recovery
challenges," said Robert Stevenson, managing director of Storage
Research for TheInfoPro. "Vendors need to demonstrate that they can
deliver the integrated products and how improvements can cut costs,
reduce administrative burden and increase backup efficiency." The
study also pointed to disaster recovery testing as an important
requirement in implementing a reliable disaster recovery plan and
to backup and replication support for VMware ESX and Microsoft
Hyper-V as the most important virtualization support to businesses.
For information on CA's Recovery Management solutions, including CA
ARCserve Backup, CA XOsoft High Availability and CA XOsoft
Replication, please visit http://www.ca.com/recovery. (Logo:
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