ARMONK, N.Y., June 20, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- IBM (NYSE:
IBM) has been recognized as a storage software Leader in the
Gartner Magic Quadrant for Data Center Backup and Recovery
Software1. In its Magic Quadrants, Gartner analysts evaluate
technology and solutions with an 'Ability to Execute' and a
'Completeness of Vision'.
IBM has a broad portfolio of data backup and recovery software
that helps clients to protect data through a hybrid cloud model or
on-premises, and is designed to make back-up and recovery of
primary storage economical and dependable. IBM Spectrum Protect,
enables advanced data backup and data recovery for virtual,
physical, cloud and software defined environments.
IBM Spectrum Protect business partner, Cobalt Iron delivers
enterprise-class cloud data protection Software as a Service
(SaaS). The company developed its Adaptive Data Protection SaaS
product using IBM Spectrum Protect as a core embedded application.
Its hybrid cloud offering takes advantage of the deduplication,
replication and compression capabilities of Spectrum Protect. This
helps Cobalt Iron customers benefit from the scale, efficiencies
and analytics in the cloud.
Cobalt Iron's clients face the challenge to adequately and cost
effectively protect exploding volumes of data. Its hybrid cloud
SaaS solution provides clients of all sizes, across banking,
healthcare and insurance industries, the unique capabilities of
cloud including a pay as you grow model.
"Whether our customers choose to backup data for compliance
reasons or to maintain high availability of applications they're
always seeking to limit costs," said Richard Spurlock, CEO and Founder, Cobalt Iron.
"Through the elimination of proprietary hardware stacks and
appliances, IBM Spectrum Protect helps our customers save up to 75
percent in backup costs. In addition backup times have been reduced
by up to 80 percent due to the performance capabilities achieved
through IBM Spectrum Protect deduplication, replication and
management capabilities."
By leveraging IBM Spectrum Protect's industry leading data
deduplication, compression and encryption, today Cobalt Iron's ADP
v3.2 can deliver millions of backup jobs per month.
"IBM leadership in data storage backup and recovery begins with
the capabilities like incremental forever backups, which
unlike competitive backup methodologies that often require full
backups, eliminates the need to conduct full backups," said
Bina Hallman, Vice President,
Offering Management Executive, IBM Software Defined Storage
Solutions. "Through IBM Spectrum Protect, our clients are able to
reduce cost and complexity of data protection and can confidently
recover data anytime, anywhere -- from on premises or stored in the
cloud."
Leaders in the Magic Quadrant for Data Center Backup and
Recovery Software
According to Gartner, "Leaders have the highest combined measures
of Ability to Execute and Completeness of Vision. They have the
most comprehensive and scalable product portfolios. They have a
proven track record of established market presence and financial
performance. For vision, they are perceived in the industry as
thought leaders, and have well-articulated plans for enhancing
recovery capabilities, improving ease of deployment and
administration, and increasing their scalability and product
breadth. A fundamental sea change is occurring in the backup and
recovery market. For vendors to have long-term success, they must
plan to address the legacy requirements of traditional backup and
recovery, while looking to expand their integration with and
exploitation of emerging applications, hypervisors, snapshot and
replication technologies, and public cloud capabilities. A
cornerstone for Leaders is the ability to articulate how new
requirements will be addressed as part of their vision for recovery
management. As a group, Leaders can be expected to be considered
part of most new purchase proposals and have high success rates in
winning new business. This does not mean, however, that a large
market share alone is a primary indicator of a Leader. Leaders are
strategic vendors, well-positioned for the future, having
established success in meeting the needs of upper midsize and large
data centers."
To view the full report, visit
http://www.gartner.com/reprints/ibm?id=1-394O3O9&ct=160609&st=sg
For more information about IBM Spectrum Protect, visit
http://www-01.ibm.com/software/tivoli/csi/backup-recovery/resources.html
and follow us on twitter @ibmstorage.
1 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Data Center Backup and
Recovery Software by Dave Russell,
Pushan Rinnen, Robert Rhame,
June 8, 2016.
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