Dell PowerVault DL2000 - Manual

W H I T E P A P E R
D e l l T a k e s H o l i s t i c A p p r o a c h t o t h e S e c o n d a r y S t o r a g e
M a r k e t w i t h I t s I n t e l l i g e n t D a t a M a n a g e m e n t S o l u t i o n s
Sponsored by: Dell
Robert Amatruda
March 2009
I N T H I S I D C W H I T E P A P E R
In this white paper, sponsored by Dell, IDC analyzes the market opportunity for Dell's
new data protection appliance, the PowerVault DL2000 product. In addition, IDC
explores Dell's offering in the context of the secondary storage and disk-based
backup market.
S I T U A T I O N O V E R V I E W
Today, customers are under enormous pressure to economically meet their ever-
growing data storage requirements and grapple with regulations that dictate the need
for long-term retention and archiving of their data. Additionally, in today's competitive
business environment, more value is placed on the ability to optimize and restore
critical information that businesses need for search and discovery. The current set of
data protection practices and products falls woefully short of addressing the multitude
of data management needs customers have today.
In the current paradigm, customers employ disk and tape solutions with no set of
cohesive tools to help them manage their data in the long term. Moreover, data
management tools do exist today; however, they are expensive and difficult to
implement without the help of integrators or consultants. The current set of data
management solutions is appropriate for larger companies that have expertise and
budget allocated to implement data management tools. However, small and medium-
sized customers are not well-served with these tools. Even small companies doing
work in the medical industry must comply with HIPAA regulations that require them to
manage their data for very long periods of time.
T H E D A T A P R O T E C T I O N A N D D A T A
M A N A G E M E N T C H A L L E N G E
IDC has found that small and medium-sized customers use a multitude of
technologies for data protection and data management. Traditionally, data was sent
directly to physical tape; however, the ever-increasing growth of data has created
significant bottlenecks in performance and time associated with backups and, more
important, restore. In addition, the ability to do search and discovery is very limited.
Today, the increased use of disk alleviates shrinking backup windows, bottlenecks,
and subpar performance of tape. Many firms are now keeping up to 30 days of
backup data on disk before migrating it to physical tape in order to meet the recovery
time requirements and support the need for archiving.
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