DCIG 2016-17 Small/Midsize Enterprise Integrated Backup Appliance Buyer’s Guide

DCIG, LLC announced the availability of the its 2016-17 Small/Midsize Enterprise 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 29 products from 7 different providers. Using ranking categories of Recommended, Excellent and Good, it offers much of the information an organization should need to make an informed decision as to which integrated backup appliance will suit their needs.

Each backup appliance included in the guide meets following criteria:

• Must be available as a physical appliance that includes backup and recovery software as a combined bundle under one SKU
• Provides features and capacities appropriate for small/midsize enterprises
• 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