Startups Face Growing Competition as Big IT Vendors Look to Shape Emerging CDP Market, New Report FindsCompanies Specializing in Continuous Data Protection are Facing New Competition from Microsoft, IBM, and Other IT Giants, According to Byte and Switch InsiderPRNewswire NEW YORK, July 10 /PRNewswire/ -- The market for continuous data protection (CDP) products continues to undergo significant changes, as startup specialists and incumbent vendors scramble to define CDP's place in the overall storage and data security hierarchy, according a new report published by Byte and Switch Insider (http://www.byteandswitch.com/insider), a subscription service of Light Reading Inc. (http://www.lightreading.com/). "Continuous Data Protection: A Market Update" identifies the key developments affecting the market positioning of CDP and analyzes the main points of contention among vendors in this emerging product sector. The report explores a variety of questions surrounding the CDP sector, including: -- The entrance of major incumbent vendors including EMC, IBM,
Hewlett-Packard, Microsoft, and Symantec
-- Pros and cons of "pure CDP" and "near-CDP" approaches
-- Network-based vs. host-based CDP
-- File-level, block-level, and application-specific CDP
-- The importance of write order fidelity
-- Use of in-band vs. out-of-band designs
The report also identifies and analyzes a full range of technology, deployment, and market factors affecting enterprise use of CDP systems, including: -- Importance of full-blown CDP to specific applications
-- Key differences between "pure CDP" and "near-CDP," and how those
differences affect system cost and effectiveness
-- Efforts by the Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA) to
create standards that define CDP
Key findings of the report include:
-- CDP vendors are struggling for mainstream adoption of their products
by enterprise users
-- Debate continues to rage over exactly what constitutes "continuous
data protection"
-- "Pure CDP" advocates adhere to the stringent requirement that a CDP
system provide infinite point-in-time recovery
-- "Near-CDP" systems allow for data restoration to specific points in
time through the creation of data snapshots
-- EMC, Microsoft, and Symantec are among the suppliers advocating the
near-CDP approach to data recovery
-- Market activity suggests that CDP will be incorporated as a feature of
larger data protection platforms
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