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•Guest Column: Breaking Open The Backup And Recovery WAN Bottleneck

By Jerome M Wendt and James Koopmann, DCIG LLC

The statement that "data growth is continuing at an exponential rate" rarely ever conveys the exact location of the data that is growing so fast. But it just so happens that a consensus of industry analysts agree the majority of this rapidly growing pool of corporate data (up to 60 percent) now resides at remote corporate offices. While more companies now recognize that the data created and stored at remote sites is vital to their ongoing success, protecting it presents a unique set of challenges. Of these challenges, moving backup data over corporate WANs is one of greatest.

Companies now recognize that they need better ways to centralize the management and protection of this data. But this can be difficult to implement as moving data to a central location requires sufficient network bandwidth between the data center and each remote office along with the needed technical expertise for implementation and administration.

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•Guest Column: Breaking Open The Backup And Recovery WAN Bottleneck