| | February 20166CIOReviewCIOReview's circulation is audited and certified by BPA International (Audit Pending). CIOReviewNOVEMBER 20 - 2015Editorial StaffVisualizersStephen ThomasArun ThomasBacking up of the DNAEditorialCIOReviewFEBRUARY 15 - 2016Managing EditorJeevan GeorgeEditorial StaffVisualizersStephen ThomasArun ThomasBackup Solutions SpecialThe last decade, which has witnessed the spread of enterprise data across on premise, cloud, social media and mobile, has drawn forth increased vulnerabilities, presenting the need for future-proof backup, which can facilitate instant recovery and zero downtime. Today, technology is in pace with the deluge of structured and unstructured data and the resulting security implications, to steer the move of enterprises from traditional to more effective backup strategies. The convergence of disaster recovery, backup, archive and security under a single umbrella called `Data Protection' is underway. The need of the hour is to understand data better from all facets. In-depth analytics helps to adjudge the right backup solution, which can augment existing backup investment, and scale up for increased data volumes while extending support for virtual, cloud and mobile platforms. To ease out the hurdles in improving backup and recovery time, enterprises are capitalizing on direct-to-cloud backup, leveraging its intrinsic offsite nature and cost-effective scalability. With WAN-optimized technologies, cloud backup solutions that are entirely software based, can proffer quicker and reliable performance doing away with the need for extra hardware. As cyber-security measures become stringent, encrypted data backups, strong user access control and cloud-based replication has already become the new normal.Additionally, as data volumes grow, backup will prove to be expensive and the ensuing years will see pricing models based on recovery performance, which will assure a tighter control over the cost even as data volumes rise. With numerous options for data backup, the buy in is for multi-tier backup strategy that elicits the best advantage from the three mediums currently in use--flash drives, cloud, or tape. Backup is becoming a frequently tested, live system in both public and private cloud implementations. The choice of vendors offering backup solutions will be evaluated based on cost-effectiveness, capabilities and correlating requirements with the primary focus on reliability. We have evaluated scores of vendors, to feature the 20 Most Promising Backup Solution Providers who can help formulate a backup strategy that not only protects the data, but also guarantees maximum uptime for the applications and infrastructure with a custom built flexible backup solution.Let us know your thoughts.Jeevan GeorgeManaging Editoreditor@cioreview.comJenna VegasKathy ArnoldAaron Pierce Ellen PearsonCopyright © 2016 CIOReview. All rights reserved. Reproduction in whole or part of any text, photography or illustrations without written permission from the publisher is prohibited. The publisher assumes no responsibility for unsolicited manuscripts, photographs or illustrations. Views and opinions expressed in this publication are not necessarily those of the magazine and accordingly, no liability is assumed by the publisher thereof.Mailing AddressCIOReview44790 S. Grimmer Blvd Suite 202, Fremont, CA 94538T:510.402.1463, F:510-894-8405 February 15- 2016, Vol 05 SE 13 Published by CIOReview To subscribe to CIOReviewVisit www.cioreview.com CIOReviewSalesT:510-565-7614Maria D'Souzamaria@cioreview.comVian IsaacVineet Nair
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