Includes Backup/Recovery, Archiving, DPM, VTL, CDP, Data De-duplication, DRM.

Data is the lifeblood of an enterprise. And yet data has been protected in essentially the same fashion over the past two decades, i.e. by backing it up to tape and sending the tapes offsite. This method alone is no longer adequate and a spade of new technologies has become available in the last five years. These new technologies are already transforming the way data is protected, how long it is kept online, how it is archived. Recovery Management has emerged as a new discipline focused on recovering data rather than copying data. The new compliance requirements are essentially requiring companies of all sizes to upgrade their data protection infrastructures or be subject to huge fines. The level of innovation in this space is torrid. Taneja Group covers this space from end to end and has defined many of the new categories that now are considered the norm. The analysts that cover this space have deep industry backgrounds in developing and marketing these technologies.

	Next generation best practices for protecting data (Bakbone) (Profile) Data recovery has never been an easy task, and organizations are universally immersed in a struggle to prioritize recovery tasks for certain applications (in a disaster) and figure out how to minimize the time it takes to recover data. The compromises are never attractive, and call for businesses to augment their protection with all manner of other complex technologies - replication, clustering, failover, DR. These other technologies duplicate the protection of backup, but focus on preserving the use of systems. We've long expected data protection vendors to breakthrough with solutions to challenge this approach. Let's take a look at how one vendor - Bakbone - is doing this with their NetVault FASTRecover technology. May 28, 2010
	Advancing the Value of Archives: Iron Mountain’s Acquisition of Mimosa (Report) Pre-acquisition Iron Mountain already offered hosted offerings through Iron Mountain Digital. What Iron Mountain lacked was an on-premise archiving piece, a broader range of data types under archive management, and an offering that would add additional Electronic Discovery Reference Model (EDRM) stages for an end-to-end eDiscovery offering. This Opinion will briefly describe Iron Mountain’s February acquisition of Mimosa and how the addition allows Iron Mountain to fill in these gaps. Mar 19, 2010
	Quantum goes beyond dedupe (Profile) After undergoing a dramatic rebirth in business fundamentals and solution capabilities throughout 2008 and 2009, Quantum is uniquely poised with a comprehensive set of competitive capabilities that may let it compete in the data storage and management markets like never before. Mar 16, 2010
	FalconStor Continuous Data Protector (Profile) FalconStor Continuous Data Protector enables fully integrated continuous protection in the data center, as well as at remote recovery sites. The result is continuous data, application and system availability for critical systems at an exceptionally favorable cost. Feb 02, 2010
	IBM ProtecTIER Adds Native Replication (Profile) "When IBM initially acquired Diligent ProtecTIER, the product lacked replication. IBM's bread and butter enterprise accounts already had replication so this was a non-issue. But as IBM moved down-market, they found that mid-market customers rarely owned array-based replication and would welcome ProtecTIER native replication." Dec 09, 2009