Asigra Inc., a leading cloud backup, recovery and restore software
provider since 1986, today announced its forecast for data protection in
2016. Influenced by several factors, the company's perspective for the
next 12 months is that organizations will continue the consolidation of
data protection to reduce complexity and control expenses related to
rising data volumes. The result will be greater demand for highly
scalable, centralized solutions with technologies that reduce capital
and operational costs.
According to MarketsandMarkets the global storage software market is
forecast to grow from $15.11 billion in 2014 to $23.33 billion by 2019,
at a CAGR of 9.1% during the forecast period. Fast growing data storage
volumes, particularly unstructured data, is expected to be a major
driver for the increasing demand of storage solutions. Further driving
adoption is the significant and growing demand for storage
virtualization. In light of the influx of data and its impact on
organizations, Asigra has identified the drivers it expects will be
impacted by data growth, resulting in significant adoption of converged
data protection solutions and services in 2016.
- Diversification of data creation and storage across computing
platforms: Organizations today are continuing their expansion into
cloud-based systems, mobile computing platforms (including tablets and
smartphones), virtualized infrastructure, SaaS-based applications, and
infrastructure as a service (IaaS). Data being generated and stored in
these applications and on these platforms is more commonly considered
valuable to the organization and must be protected. The diversity of
these platforms calls for data recovery solutions capable of
centralizing the backup and recovery of data regardless of where it
resides.
- Increasing need to strengthen disaster recovery capabilities: As
environmental and political circumstances change, the risk of data loss
becomes a legitimate concern. Regulations calling for greater
redundancies in the protection of data now require many regions to store
duplicate copies of data offsite to ensure access in the event of a
site failure. Furthermore, the threat of floods, fire, major storms and
other external forces cast a shadow over IT resiliency that can only be
safeguarded by implementing a proper DR strategy that maintains central
oversight.
- Inclusion of emerging IT platforms such as Docker Containers into
existing data recovery infrastructure: While server virtualization has
seen enormous uptake over the years, new IT platforms such as Docker
Containers are creating new possibilities and new repositories of data
that must be accounted for in the organizational data recovery plan. The
right converged data protection platform will be future proof in that
it will also provide avenues for protecting hybrid IT environments that
utilize cloud infrastructure from Amazon and others.
- Shorter recovery time objectives (RTOs) and recovery point objectives
(RPOs) for mission critical environments: IT professionals under
pressure to maintain business continuity are increasingly working to
meet more stringent RTOs and RPOs for mission critical systems such as
databases, email, and business-specific data. Converged data protection
solutions allow for the incorporation of higher performance recovery
within existing data recovery infrastructure to centralize and reduce
management complexity.
- Performance-oriented pricing: As data volumes grow exponentially,
backup and recovery becomes increasingly expensive. The problem is that
organizations typically pay based on how much data is backed up so as
volumes grow, so does the price. 2016 will see increasing adoption of
alternative pricing models such as recovery performance-based pricing
where there is greater control over costs even as data volumes rise.
"The degree to which organizations are expanding their data generation
and storage platforms is putting greater pressure on vendors to keep up
with its expansion," said Jesse Maldonado, Director of Cloud Computing
Services, Centre Technologies. "Instead of the headache of managing a
cocktail of point solutions for the recovery of data in physical,
virtual, cloud, SaaS and mobile computing environments, converged data
recovery solutions and services simplify the entire process and help to
better manage the chaos, returning hundreds of hours of valuable time to
IT departments annually."
"Propelled by cloud and mobile, the growing IT landscape is pushing data
volumes to new heights. As a result, 2016 will be an exciting year for
those who understand the challenges that data growth and IT diversity is
presenting," said Eran Farajun, Executive Vice President, Asigra. "By
tapping customer and partner insights, we have seen the writing on the
wall and have determined that the convergence of data protection will
become a must-have going forward.