by Dr. Mark Campbell Every industry has its secrets, and the backup market is no different.While widely known within the industry itself, many backup providers do a greatjob of keeping these secrets from current and prospective customers.
But today’s increasingly agile, complex and heterogeneous data centershave made data protection a challenge for many companies, and the last thingthey need is to be kept in the dark on the industry’s intricacies. With this inmind, I want to shed some light on eight secrets most backup vendors don’t wantyou to know.
The cost of backup software is afraction of what you’re going to spend.
The cost of your backup software is only the tip of the iceberg in termsof your capital and operating costs. You’re also going to need to purchase aserver, an operating system, a storage controller, a lot of storage and somepretty advanced networking – and then spend time and money figuring out how tointegrate these components to optimize functionality and performance.
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