DCIG 2016-17 Integrated Backup Appliance Buyer's Guide

DCIG announced the availability of the 2016-17 Integrated Backup Appliance Buyer’s Guide developed from company’s backup appliance body of research.

Overall rankings
(vendors listed alphabetically in each category)

Integrated backup appliances address enterprise data protection challenges by pre-integrating backup software with self-contained purpose-built backup appliances. Because integrated backup appliances include backup software, they displace both legacy backup hardware and legacy backup software.

The guide weights, scores and ranks more than 100 features of 33 products from ten (10) different providers. Using ranking categories of Recommended, Excellent and Good, it offers much of the information an organization should need to make a highly informed decision as to which integrated backup appliance will suit their needs.

Each backup appliance included in the guide meets the following criteria:

Must be available as a physical appliance that includes backup and recovery software as a combined bundle under one SKU
Must store backup data on the appliance via on premise DAS, NAS or SAN-attached storage
May connect to a public storage cloud
Sufficient information provided to reach meaningful conclusions
Must be formally announced or available for purchase on July 1, 2016

DCIG’s succinct analysis provides insight into the state of the integrated backup appliance marketplace. The Buyer’s Guide identifies the specific benefits organizations can expect to
achieve using an integrated backup appliance, and key features organizations should be aware of as they evaluate products. It also provides brief observations about the distinctive features of each product. Ranking tables enable organizations to get an ‘at-a-glance’ overview of the products; while DCIG’s standardized one-page data sheets facilitate side-by-side comparisons, assisting organizations to quickly create a short list of products that may meet their requirements.

End users registering to access this report via the DCIG Analysis Portal also gain access to the Interactive Buyer’s Guide (IBG).