Esg lab’s view – Dell PowerVault DL2100 User Manual
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ESG LAB VALIDATION
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ESG Lab’s View
As data protection demands on SMBs increase, the shortcomings of legacy traditional tape-based backup and
recovery solutions become more apparent. According to ESG research, small businesses report problems with
backup and recovery performance, reliability issues (due to media failure, human error, and hardware failure),
tape management headaches, and high administrative costs. ESG interviewed nearly 400 storage professionals
and found that 14% of their tape-based backup operations did not complete successfully within their backup
window; more importantly, nearly 1 in 6 of their recovery attempts failed. Translate these failures into dollars lost
based on unrecoverable data and clearly, the impact is potentially financially devastating to small businesses.
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As a result, many SMBs have implemented data protection solutions that have either been too big for their
environments with the hope that they will grow into them or that have been grossly inadequate given today‘s
increasingly demanding business climate. The combination of Dell and Symantec, both leading vendors in their
respective markets and trusted suppliers to small businesses, has created a powerful, easy to deploy and
manage disk-based data protection appliance.
With increasingly complex data protection environments, many organizations express interest in turning to one
vendor for all of their data protection needs
—but also recognize that they may need to select best-of-breed
products to fully address their requirements. Roughly one-quarter (23%) of small to medium-size businesses
surveyed by ESG indicate they are very likely to look to a single vendor to support the full spectrum of their
organization‘s data protection processes. Sold and supported by Dell, a vendor that small and medium-sized
businesses have come to know and trust, the PowerVault DL2000 fits these requirements perfectly.
The Dell PowerVault DL2000 Powered by Symantec Backup Exec addresses the challenges of small and
medium-sized businesses with a backup to disk solution that ESG Lab was able to configure in less than 20
minutes. ESG Lab has confirmed that Dell and Symantec have created an affordable, integrated solution that is
easy to order, install, and own as it provides fast and reliable protection and granular recovery of mission-critical
application data using the latest in disk-based continuous data protection technology.
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Source: ESG Research Report, Data Protection Market Trends, February 2008
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