Study Finds Backup and Recovery Among Top IT Priorities

Silver Peak Systems, Inc., in accelerating data over distance, announced that a study conducted by Enterprise Strategy Group found backup and recovery to be the second most important IT priority for organizations over the next 12 months.

The study, conducted on behalf of Silver Peak, also revealed how critical data is perceived to be to an organization’s success.

Limited bandwidth, congestion, and latency due to distance make replicating data across a WAN or to the cloud challenging. These factors can lead to an increase WAN infrastructure costs and affect TCO for offsite data protection and DR. Silver Peak addresses these challenges to help storage professionals meet , increase geographic distances between data centers and reduce bandwidth expenditures normally associated with WANs.

To read ESG report: Meeting the Impossible RPO: A Cost Analysis of Replication Acceleration Software (registration needed)