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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

As you may have seen, our friends at Bocada today announced that Vision, their new solution focused on managing the complexities of backup and recovery in virtual environments, now supports vRanger®, Quest’s market-leading, vSphere 5 certified, VMware backup, replication and recovery solution. We’ve been working with our counterparts at Bocada for months now to support their efforts to develop an API that would allow for the interoperability between the two products, so it goes without saying that we’re extremely proud of this news. Quest made the vRanger API available to the Bocada team, worked to educate them ...

Bocada, a data protection specialist, is taking its business into virtual environments with the new Bocada Vision solution. Vision is a DPSM (data protection service management) solution designed to protect information in virtual environments.

The solution can:

• Reveal backup results by snapshot and by location.
• Create a single report for multiple virtual servers in order to show how virtual machines (VMs) are protected and to help find non-protected VMs.
• Give a field level view into what makes up the VM.
• Help IT admins understand capacity use by showing which VMs are located on tape and finding disk solutions that have ...

Calling itself the leader in data protection management software, Bocada is addressing a gap in backup management reporting caused by the growth of virtualization. Vision is a DPMS product that manages data protection in virtual environments and it is available as a standalone offering or in a module for the company's Prism product that bridges the gap between physical and virtual protection.

According to a recent survey from Enterprise Strategy Group, virtualization complicates data protection because organizations must look to products that will not only protect the physical environment but also integrate into the virtual environment. However, if virtualization ...

Reporting for DPM has been a problem for many DPM administrators. You need better reporting on scheduled backup jobs, success/failures of backup jobs, details on tape jobs, SLA reports, and more. Your only other option was to create custom reports in DPM using the SQL views that come with DPM. I posted on how to do this a while back here:
http://www.buchatech.com/2011/01/building-custom-reports-in-dpm/.

Working with SQL views is not the easiest way to get custom reports if you are new to or not savvy with SQL Reporting services. Well the alternative to this is ...

Austin, Texas - October 11, 2011 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) -- Tech Awards Circle ( www.techawardscircle.com ), a uniquely unbiased, independent awards program, today announced the winners of its third competition. The winners represent a broad range of achievements, from hardware to software to services in consumer/SOHO, SMB, midrange, and enterprise markets. Tech Awards Circle winners, selected by an independent circle of journalists, should be considered the 'best of the best' in the computer and consumer technology industries today.

Gold, silver and bronze awards were given out in each category. Winners are listed below, in order -- from Gold, Silver to Bronze.

Gold ...