10 Predictions For Data Protection In 2015

By Bill Andrews, CEO, ExaGrid Systems

Here are ten data protection predictions for 2015 covering topics including tape backup, offsite disaster recovery, cloud backup, virtualized backup, and Disaster Recovery-as-a-Service (DRaaS).

1. Tape backup will be relegated to either offsite disaster recovery or for long-term version history. Backing up to tape at the primary site will virtually disappear in 2015 and will be replaced with disk-based backup with data deduplication.
2. 50 percent of all offsite disaster recovery will be tape, and 50 percent will be disk
3. SMB organizations with a few terabytes or less will continue to move towards cloud backup solutions either to vendors with their own cloud or to public cloud providers.

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