Continuous Data Protection Driven by Recovery and Compliance Requirements.SANTA BARBARA Santa Barbara (săn'tə bär`brə, –bərə), city (1990 pop. 85,571), seat of Santa Barbara co., S Calif., on the Pacific Ocean; inc. 1850. , Calif. -- Practically unheard of Not heard of; of which there are no tidings. Unknown to fame; obscure. - Glanvill. See also: Unheard Unheard two years ago, Continuous Data protection (CDP CDP (cytidine diphosphate): see cytosine. (1) (Certificate in Data Processing) An earlier award for the successful completion of an examination in hardware, software, systems analysis, programming, management and accounting, ) is considered a hot technology by a large number of IT managers today. 34% of the 2,000 surveyed IT managers are using a CDP or near-CDP system today for part of their data, and 23% plan to acquire one in the next 18 months. In addition, half of today's CDP users will upgrade to a better system in 2006. 19% of the population feels they are very familiar with the CDP concept, and an additional 50% say they are somewhat familiar. That represents a major rise in the awareness of the benefits of CDP, when compared to other surveys performed in the past six months. Tighter legislations on data retention and recovery have contributed in elevating data protection to the top of the IT managers concerns. 37% of the surveyed population rank data protection highest among their storage management challenges, to these users CDP comes as a savior. It is about to revolutionize the very notion of backup and recovery, and constitutes a major step towards achieving seamless business continuity. However most users continue to perform periodic full backups See backup types. , not fully trusting the new technology. The population aiming at RTO (Recovery Time Objective) The amount of time a computer system or application can stop functioning before it is considered intolerable to the enterprise. It can be computed to be from seconds to days, depending on how critical the application is to the organization. and RPO RPO Recruitment Process Outsourcing RPO Recovery Point Objective (disaster recovery) RPO Royal Philharmonic Orchestra RPO Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra RPO Representative Poetry Online RPO Railway Post Office of less than 20 minutes has doubled since 2004. The survey shows that improving the recovery time objective (RTO) is the major incentive for CDP acquisition. Liability and compliance is the second major incentive, cited by 29% of the respondents. The survey addressed a random population of 15,000 sites. 2,000 reliable responses form the basis of preliminary findings covering storage configurations and objectives. For a selected population of over 100 IT professionals, this report provides statistics on backup practices, ranks issues and needs, and analyzes CDP trends and plans. The analysis of this extensive survey will be available by mid January 2006 in a report jointly published by Peripheral Concepts and Coughlin Associates, and titled "Continuous Data Protection -- A User's Perspective." The price of this report is $2,650. PERIPHERAL CONCEPTS, Inc. is a leading consulting firm Noun 1. consulting firm - a firm of experts providing professional advice to an organization for a fee consulting company business firm, firm, house - the members of a business organization that owns or operates one or more establishments; "he worked for a specializing in storage and storage management. For more information go to www.periconcepts.com. COUGHLIN ASSOCIATES provides consulting on data storage components, systems and applications. For more information go to www.tomcoughlin.com. |
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