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by Ester Shein

Organizations continue to remain challenged when it comes to ensuring data is adequately protected and recoverable, even though advances have been made in backup and data protection technology, industry observers say. Among the reasons cited are that data protection processes don't get reviewed frequently enough, there are few SLA requirements, and a lack of visibility into the results of data protection activities.

Add to the mix the growing popularity of virtualized servers, which has created new challenges for IT in achieving "optimal backup and recovery, including increased overhead of managing multiple backup applications, monitoring and managing ...

April 11th, 2012
Silicon Valley, CA

http://www.vmug.com

Join Bocada and your fellow VMware users at this full-day event to learn from in depth technical sessions, demonstrations and exhibits from the experts. This is a great opportunity to network with your peers to discuss virtualization trends, best practices and the latest technology! VMUG is pleased to offer top notch education at our user conferences. User Conferences are a great opportunities to learn from in-depth technical sessions, demonstrations and exhibits and network with your peers and learn about virtual infrastructure from the experts.

Free, one-hour event discusses how companies have teamed up to enable end users to confidently protect their virtualized computing infrastructure

Kirkland, Wash. – February 21, 2012 – Bocada Inc., the world’s leading provider of data protection management software and the creator of the Data Protection Service Management (DPSM) model, today announced that it is co-hosting a one-hour webcast with Quest Software discussing how the companies have teamed up to enable end users to confidently protect and manage virtual environments on February 29 at 1 P.M. EST.

"Effective Data Protection Management in Virtual Environments" features Quest vRanger Senior Product Manager Mark ...

by George Crump, Senior Analyst, StorageSwitzerland

The challenge of managing data protection in the virtualized environment is not only determining if a virtual machine is being protected but also if that VM is being over-protected. The typical VMware environment often has multiple backup applications, each protecting various parts and there’s a limited ability to get an overview of how well protected that environment is.

The VMware Data Protection Shortage

When VMware first started to move out of the evaluation labs and into production there was an immediate data protection problem, as most traditional backup applications didn’t support it ...

Kirkland, Wash. – February 7, 2012 –  Bocada Inc.,  a leading provider of data protection management software and the creator of the Data Protection Service Management (DPSM) model, today announced it has joined the VMware Technology Alliance Partner (TAP) program.  The VMware TAP program helps technology vendors integrate their products with VMware virtualization software and deliver timely, joint solutions to mutual customers.

“We are pleased to welcome Bocada as the newest member of the VMware TAP program,” said Sheryl Sage, Director, Alliance Programs, VMware.  “The VMware TAP program offers companies like Bocada the tools and resources they need to develop high-value solutions ...

Considering virtualization? Let our knowledge and expertise get you prepared!

Join us for a one hour webcast with Quest vRanger Senior Product Manager Mark Edwards and Bocada Product Marketing Manager Ralph Wynn who will discuss how Bocada and Quest have teamed up to enable end users to confidently protect their virtual environments. We will cover:

• How organizations are protecting virtual servers today and future trends
• How Quest vRanger provides the industry most advanced solution for protecting virtualized data
• How virtual data protection service management can help with any VM deployment

Wednesday, February 29th at 1PM Eastern/10AM Pacific

Ralph Wynn ...

Time and time again, surveys indicate that despite advances in backup and data protection technology, organizations are still challenged to ensure data is adequately protected and recoverable. Often this is due to minimal review of data protection processes, few SLA requirements and lack of visibility into the results of data protection activities. Today, the addition of virtualized servers to IT environments has created new challenges in achieving optimal backup/recovery, including increased overhead of managing multiple backup solutions, monitoring and managing capacity use in data-stores, mitigating risk of unprotected workloads, and somehow ensuring that backup operations won't kill the ...

Kirkland, Wash. – January 24, 2012 –  For companies that may have gotten away from a healthy backup management routine, that leaves them vulnerable to the loss of business-critical information, Bocada Inc., the world’s leading provider of data protection management software and the creator of the Data Protection Service Management (DPSM) model, is offering special incentives to organizations that run a 30 day  Health Check analysis during the first quarter of 2012 in order to validate their virtual or physical backup operations and ensure that the start the new year begins in a positive direction.

Bocada recommends a health check/assessment ...

Kirkland, Wash. – January 18, 2012 – Bocada Inc., the world’s leading provider of data protection management software and the creator of the Data Protection Service Management (DPSM) model, will address the specific needs of data protection management in virtual environments at the Truth in IT seminar, Backup Central Live, at the DoubleTree by Hilton in San Jose, Calif. on January 24^th.

Backup Central Live is a free end-user seminar that features independent content from W. Curtis Preston and leading technology vendors addressing the issues of backing up and recovering in today’s most challenging data protection environments. Bocada will ...

February 23^rd, 2012 Tampa, Florida

http://www.backupcentrallive.com

Learn How to Overcome Today's Backup Challenges!

Truth in IT’s Backup and Recovery Seminars feature independent content from W. Curtis Preston, as well as presentations from sponsoring vendors. These seminars will be free to qualified end-users.

Topics covered will include the challenges of backing up and recovering:

• Virtualized servers (e.g. VMware, Hyper-V, Xen)
• Very large servers and data centers
• Remote offices and laptops
• Data retained for multiple years

We will also cover how to solve these challenges using products and services available today, including:

• Cloud Backup Services ...