43% of Respondents Have De-Dupe in Place

FalconStor Software, Inc. announced the results of IDG
Research Services‘ quick poll, Backup
Technologies; the Tale of the Tape.

The independent survey shows that deduplication has entered the
mainstream and is effectively addressing the backup and storage issues
caused by exponential data growth. Large enterprises are leading the way
– with mid-size companies and small businesses not far behind – in
deploying and reporting significant benefits of the technology,
including faster backups, quicker recovery, more efficient data
management and lower operating costs.

Through its online poll, IDG Research collected information from 215
qualified IT leaders at large, medium and small companies across various
industries regarding their use of backup and deduplication
technologies.

Key survey findings include:

• 59% of all respondents either have a deduplication solution in place (43%) or plan to implement one (16%).
• An aggregated 52% of large enterprises, 32% of mid-size companies and
  28% of SMBs currently have a deduplication solution in place.
• An aggregated 60 to 70% of respondents already have achieved or expect
  to realize faster backups, quicker recovery and improved efficiency with
  deduplication.
• 40% of all respondents, regardless of company size, retain backup data for more than three years.

"The escalating growth of digital information over the last decade,
which has severely stressed traditional methods of data protection and
storage, will continue unabated for the foreseeable future. Migrating to
new technologies such as deduplication for optimizing backup and
storage has become an essential priority for data center managers
everywhere," said Janet King, GM and VP of IDG Research Services. "This
survey shows that deduplication has been deployed and tested by a wide
range of midsize to large enterprises, demonstrating its benefits to the
rest of the market and accelerating adoption of the technology."

The survey data also revealed that an aggregated 59% of companies polled
are using a combination of disk-based backup and tape storage; and an
aggregated 39% are using disk-based backup with deduplication. Tape
continues to be a cost-effective medium for data archiving, especially
as businesses are required to retain records for longer periods of time,
while disk-based systems are deployed for faster backup and recovery.
Deduplication increases the efficiency of both disk and tape, optimizing
the management of both short- and long-term storage.

"Because of the increasing amount of data that must be protected and
available for immediate recovery, companies need to be smarter about the
way they backup, archive and store data," said Darrell Riddle, senior
director of product marketing at FalconStor. "Storage resources are
taxed by excessive amounts of duplicate data, which costs companies
money. FalconStor’s deduplication technology not only reduces the amount
of data stored or sent over a network, it dramatically increases
operational efficiency and lowers the cost of doing business. With
cloud-based storage becoming more prevalent, businesses will be
transmitting an exponentially increasing amount of duplicate data over
the wire – we want to stop that madness."

IDG Research polled 215 qualified IT leaders in various industries
regarding the current and future use of backup and deduplication
technologies. At the time of the survey 33% of these individuals worked
at firms with more than 5,000 employees; 24% had between 1,001 and 5,000
employees; 35% had between 101 and 1,000 employees; and eight% had
between 50 and 100 employees.