2013 Trends in Backup and Recovery Survey
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1. What is your biggest challenge with Data Protection and Backup?
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Dealing with Data Loss
Unable to Meet RTO Objectives
Regulatory Compliance
Deduplication / Storage Utilization
2. What is your major objective with Data Protection in the next year?
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Deploying Virtualization
Implementing a Disaster Recovery Plan
Leveraging the Cloud
Consolidating to One Centralized Data Protection Solution
3. How are you currently managing data backup?
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Disk to Tape Backup
Direct to Tape Backup
D2D Backup
Nothing
4. What is your current backup solution?
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AppAssure
Backup Exec
Barracuda
CommVault
Data Domain
Home Grown
Veeam
None
Other
5. What % of your environment is virtualized?
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We're not virtualized & are not planning to do so.
We're not virtualized, but are planning to start.
Less than 50%
Approximately 50%
More than 50%, but not yet 100%
100% fully virtualized!
6. If you're running virtualized environments, what hypervisor are you using?
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Hyper-V
VMware
Xen
Multiple
We're not running a virtualized environment
7. How much data does your company protect?
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Over 10TB
5TB to 10TB
1TB to 4TB
500GB to 1TB
Don't Know
8. How accurate are you in forecasting how quickly your data will grow?
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Very Accurate
Somewhat Accurate
Not Accurate
9. What is the biggest challenge you face with your current backup solution?
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10. What percentage of time per week do you spend on data protection efforts to safeguard your organization's data?
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1-2 hours/week
3-5 hours/week
6-10 hours/week
More than 10 hours/week
11. Have you calculated the cost to your organization of not being able to recover data in a timely manner?
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Yes
No
In process of doing so
Too difficult to calculate
12. Does Senior Management care about what backup and data recovery solution(s) you choose?
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They don't care
They care only about TCO
We have a mission critical operations, so they are aware of our data protection services
13. How many backup solutions are you currently using?
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1 for both virtual & physical
1 for virtual & 1 for physical
2+ for virtual & 2+ for physical
Too many to count!
14. Are you a Certified Professional?
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VMware certified
Microsoft certified
In process of getting VMware certification
In process of getting Microsoft certification
Not yet, but planning to get certified
Not interested in getting any certification
15. How important would it be if you could migrate data from one environment to another?
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Least Important
Most Important
Physical to Virtual
Physical to Physical
Virtual to Virtual
Virtual to Physical
One Virtual Environment to Alternative Virtual Environment
16. What are the top 3 benefits of virtualization for your organization? (use CTRL key to select multiple)
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Lower Cost
Flexibility
Performance
Scalability
Not Sure
Other
We are not planning to virtualize, therefore there are no benefits
If you're not planning to virtualize, can you briefly explain why this is a better option for your organization?
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