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Free, one-hour event discusses how bridging the gap between virtual and physical data protection management results in significant cost and administrative savings

Kirkland, Wash. – May 8, 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 hosting a one-hour webcast showcasing research findings from Enterprise Strategy Group on trends in virtual and physical data protection, and highlighting the benefits one of their end users received when using their newly announced unified virtual and physical management solution Bocada vpConnect.

"Managing Virtual and ...

Hear End User Testimonial on How to Improve Backup Operations Across Virtual and Physical Environments

Today, a majority of organizations employ multiple, disparate data protection applications across virtual and physical environments, and recent surveys show that this trend will continue as organizations look for ways to effectively protect both virtual and physical assets. Deployment of multiple applications introduces new administrative and operational management challenges, driving the need for a single data protection service management solution. If your organization is challenged to:

• Determine if all virtual and physical servers are protected and recoverable
• Understand the true capacity utilization of all virtual ...

Kirkland, Wash. – April 24, 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 Bocada vpConnect, the industry’s first fully-integrated DPSM solution that bridges the gap between physical and virtual environments.

In a recent survey conducted by Enterprise Strategy Group, results showed sixty two percent of organizations implement separate applications to protect physical and virtual environments. These are often managed by disparate groups, leading to a lack of coordination across data protection operations, increased cost of administration, inability to quickly identify recovery points ...

Find out how Bocada and Quest work together to provide a complete virtual data protection and management solution.

Solution Brief: Quest vRanger and Bocada Vision

Kirkland, Wash. – April 3, 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 show members of the Silicon Valley VMware User Group (VMUG) its Bocada Vision software, at its conference Wednesday, April 11 at the Santa Clara Marriott in Santa Clara, CA.

Virtualizing servers introduces data protection complexities not seen when performing physical backups. Bocada Vision is the first and only solution on the market that provides insight into the data protection operations in these environments. With Vision users can quickly and easily assess ...

By Nancy Hurley, President & CEO, Bocada, Inc.

Despite advances in backup and data protection technologies, the proliferation of virtual machines means that there is an increased need to align the business and IT requirements of data protection to achieve optimal efficiency, minimize risk, and increase satisfaction to both users and the organization. I would offer the following five tips to organizations looking to overcome the challenges of data protection in virtualized environments.

1. Planning And Internal Communication Is Needed To Ensure VM Protection

As the ratio of VMs to host machines grows, the challenges of backup and recoverability in virtualized ...

Kirkland, Wash. – March 20, 2012 – With the rate of virtualized servers being added to IT environments, organizations are facing new challenges in how to adequately protect data and ensure its recoverability without backup operations limiting the performance of the host machines.  Despite advances in backup and data protection technologies, the proliferation of virtual machines means that there is an increased need to align the business and IT requirements of data protection to achieve optimal efficiency, minimize risk and increase satisfaction to both users and the organization.  Experts at

Bocada Inc., the world’s leading provider of data protection management software ...

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 ...

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 ...