Without question, Disk-to-Disk (D2D) backup has emerged in recent years to become a critical storage component of an enterprises’ data protection environment. With enterprises experiencing accelerating data growth rates, they typically will use tape media for long-term archives, but use disk for online and nearline backup and restores. Sensing a new market opportunity, a multitude of vendors has responded to the lure of this enterprise market, resulting in a wide range of alternatives when it comes to D2D data protection. However, whether or not those alternatives are well suited to solve an end users’ specific D2D challenges can be difficult to ascertain. Understanding and measuring an offering’s operational simplicity is crucial criteria for selecting a D2D solution.

Accordingly, Taneja Group has identified a locus of buying criteria that we believe compose the overall simplicity of operation of a D2D solution. Solutions that meet this definition of operational simplicity can be deployed in complex enterprise backup environments, allowing businesses to sharply reduce management overhead, attain very strong ROI, and fully protect data integrity.