We are very excited to be introducing a new product today aimed at solving key issues around data protection in virtual environments. Vision, a standalone module in the Bocada Prism family provides insight into backup activity in virtual environments, helping to ensure that VMs are recoverable. This is not just another virtualization management solution; Bocada Vision is the only product on the market that monitors the virtual environment with a lens on data protection. No other product on the market today provides the level of detail about snap activity, backup jobs, recovery points, capacity use and VM performance during backup windows. As VMs proliferate in the organization, this level of information about VM protection is critical to ensure that data is protected and recoverable as it is in the physical environment.
On initial release, Vision is integrated with vCenter and provides analysis for VMWare vDataRecovery, Quest vRangerPro, Veeam Backup and Recovery and Symantec NetBackup 7.1. We will be adding support for more of the market leading solutions that have specific functionality built in for protecting VMs (Vision will also support additional VM Platforms in the future). One of the most exciting things about coming to market with Vision is the cooperation and partnership we have experienced with VMWare, Quest and Veeam. These vendors see our solution as complementary to what they offer for data protection and have been very supportive in helping us get Vision out the door.
The following is an excerpt from our Vision solution overview. For more information go to: http://www.bocada.com/products/vision/
Today, we recognized that the state of data protection management for virtual environments is where open systems was ten years ago. Virtualization backup vendors are focused on addressing the complexities of backing up virtual instances, which requires integration with different hypervisors and virtual management solutions (i.e. vCenter or Systems Center), providing de-duplication to reduce capacity use and somehow ensuring that backups won’t kill performance of the host machines. All this combined with how rapidly users are adopting new virtualization technologies puts a strain on those vendors being able to supply in-depth reporting, let alone other DPSM functionality such as capacity and performance analysis.
Bocada commissioned Enterprise Strategy Group to do a research study in order to determine exactly how challenging backing up virtual instances was to end users, and the results were not terribly surprising. Protecting virtual instances has become a top ten challenge to over 85% of the survey respondents, confirming users are challenged by managing both snapshots and backups.
For more on this study go to http://www.bocada.com/solutions/virtual/
Also wanted to say- I’m really proud of the team, they have done a great job with this product!
Nancy Hurley
Bocada CEO
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