Today DCIG and SMB Research are pleased to jointly announce the availability of the new, comprehensive DCIG 2011 Midrange Deduplication Appliance Buyer’s Guide that weights, scores and ranks over 30 deduplication appliances with starting prices that range from $20,000 to $100,000. This Buyer’s Guide gives small, medium and large enterprises the resources they need to assist them in making what is becoming a critical buying decision: selecting a disk-based solution that deduplicates their backup data.
As far back as 2006, “backup redesign” has been cited by IT organizations as one of their main storage initiatives with it even today being listed by many as a top priority. But in the intervening years between 2006 and today, IT organizations have identified a starting point in redesigning their backup infrastructure: the use of disk.
This most typically involves the use of a disk-based appliance as a backup target and the introduction of data deduplication technology in some form to reduce data stores so disk may be cost-effectively used in this role.
As the interest in deduplication has grown, DCIG and SMB Research have heard from end-users that some guidance is needed on target-based midrange deduplication appliances that have a starting price point ranging from $20,000 – $100,000. It is in response to these inquiries that this initial DCIG 2011 Midrange Deduplication Appliance Buyer’s Guide has been produced.
The DCIG 2011 Midrange Deduplication Appliance Buyer’s Guide:
- Provides data sheets for 37 target-based deduplication appliances priced from $20,000 to $100,000
- Provides an overall ranking of these products
- Provides insights that will help end-users do thorough evaluations
- Lists deduplication appliance features and how they are supported
- Weights, scores and ranks the features on each product based upon the criteria that matter most to IT organizations
- Defines the terms used on the data sheets in the Appendix
- Provides recommendations on how to best use this Buyer’s Guide
- Provides contact information for each vendor
Some of the key findings that came out of the research associated with this Buyer’s Guide include:
- All products compressed data after it was deduplicated
- 95% of the products verified data integrity after the data was deduplicated
- All of the products support the Symantec OpenStorage API (OST)
- More than 70% of the products only offer a single controller
- All natively offer deduplication software natively as part of their solution
- All of the products offered SATA 7.2K RPM drives
- All products offered an option to configure these SATA drives using RAID 6
- All products could deduplicate incoming data while replicating data to another system
Products from the following vendors are covered in this Buyer’ s Guide:
The DCIG 2011 Midrange Deduplication Appliance Buyer’s Guide is available immediately and may be downloaded for no charge with registration at this link.