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Displacing Backup Is The New End Game For Replication Software
May 6, 2009
•Guest Column: Displacing Backup Is The New End Game For Replication Software
By Jerome Wendt DCIG, LLC
Replication software is increasingly entering the conversation as the logical replacement for backup software in client environments. Yet replicating data is really the easy part. Integrating the replication software so it becomes part of the fabric of a company's infrastructure is a far more difficult task. It is also one of the reasons that replication software has, to date, made so little headway in terms of displacing backup software for enterprise wide data protection. But as replication software matures, that will change.
I recently had a chance to speak with Peter O'Brien, InMage Systems Vice President of Business Development, about what features he now sees driving the adoption of InMage Systems' DR-Scout in customer accounts. While DR-Scout continues to have success as a business continuity solution, he sees more companies starting to use it to address other immediate business needs that they have. For instance, one company recently started to use DR-Scout to measure and forecast data change rates in its environment.
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