Hewlett-Packard Research Report Sample

Backup modernization has been underway over the last few years, with disk-based backup and recovery as a top initiative. ESG’s research shows that organizations are more often leveraging disk and the increased adoption of deduplication is a contributing factor to the rise in the use of disk in backup. Regardless, organizations are not releasing their grip on tape. Tape remains an integral part of data protection strategies, especially as the go-to media of choice for long-term retention.

ESG Lab has validated that HP has created a converged infrastructure for mid-sized organizations. ESG Lab tested HP ProLiant servers with HP Data Protector software running within VMware-enabled virtual machines. An iSCSI-attached HP P4000 SAN that uses intelligent software running on a cluster of industry standard servers was used to create a primary storage solution that’s scalable, fast, and extremely easy to manage. The data deduplication that’s built into HP StorageWorks D2D Backup Systems reduced disk capacity and WAN bandwidth requirements as a multi-site D2D2T strategy was implemented.