“We’re #1! We’re #1!”
When the dust settles on championships, that chant is heard in stadiums worldwide. High score wins, the trophy is held aloft (tossed, if you’re Tom Brady), and the celebration begins alongside Queen racking up more well-deserved royalties.
But how do you determine who’s at the top of the mountain in the data protection world? Ensuring the integrity of your crown jewels in the cloud or on-prem is not a game that ends after a preset period – it’s an ongoing battle that rages 24 x 7 and is fought by CISOs, IT Managers, Database Administrators…the list goes on. It’s complicated, requires adaptable strategy, dedication to the cause, and relentless ambition to best bad actors.
As a result, it’s always an interesting exercise to unpack claims of dominance in this market. Some are true (but come with asterisks), some are highly debatable, some are false, and others are flat-out hyperbole. Let’s look at how one vendor positions their claim of being the best.
Subjective vs. Objective…vs. the Real World
Right out of the gate, we need to understand that many cloud claims rely on two dimensions: subjective (open to opinion) and objective (factual). However, let’s not forget about what we call “real-world” claims – this is what directly impacts your business, and how you use the cloud to run it. Examples:
- Objective claim: “81% of the Fortune 500”
- Supponendo che questa affermazione sia corretta in qualche misura, non vi è alcun contesto a sostegno della stessa. L’81% ha provato il prodotto? Lo ha acquistato almeno una volta? Lo utilizza da più di un anno?
- Is your company in the Fortune 500? If not, the message is “If it’s good enough for them, it’s good enough for you.” See? Now it’s become a subjective claim.
- Hai le risorse o il budget di un’azienda della classifica Fortune 500? Se no, in che modo questo ti aiuta?
- Subjective claim: “We protect everything”
- “Tutto” significa ogni singolo tipo di dato esistente, proveniente da qualsiasi fornitore. Il che comprende certamente ogni carico di lavoro nel cloud.
- In questo caso, il fornitore che fa questa affermazione in realtà non esegue il backup di determinati carichi di lavoro per i database Azure.
- Utilizzi il cloud di Azure? Se sì, cosa ne pensi di questa affermazione?
Which brings us to the real-world aspect. We know that 80% of all enterprises have a hybrid cloud strategy1…and once you are in the cloud, you’re going to stay in the cloud. You may be multi-cloud, public cloud, or hybrid cloud, but make no mistake, you’re invested. So why do broad claims like the above exist?
Perché nel mondo reale è difficile trovare certezze.
E perché fidarsi è più facile che verificare.
14M M365 users? Ever wonder how many of those are using the free version of the app? It’s a significant number – which means you’re not being given the complete picture.
È un dato di fatto: la tranquillità assume significati diversi a seconda delle aziende. Cloud diversi, carichi di lavoro diversi, competenze diverse, livelli di sicurezza diversi. Tutti questi elementi si combinano per definire la vostra strategia cloud personalizzata. E, in definitiva, ciò che conta è che i vostri dati possano essere ripristinati allo stato precedente all’attacco o all’incidente e che siano integri al 100%, indipendentemente da dove si trovino o da quali carichi di lavoro vengano ripristinati.
That’s the claim that matters. That’s the real-world cloud claim. Full stop.
At Commvault, we make assertions about how we stack up very, very seriously. Any claims we make are objective and rooted in 3rd-party validation, and of course, fact. There’s no better way to be transparent, and we’ve been doing so for over 26 years. Our customers and partners rely on that to defend, secure, and protect their data, day in and day out.
Stai prendendo decisioni che incidono sulla tua attività basandoti su affermazioni che, nel migliore dei casi, non sono applicabili alla tua situazione e, nel peggiore dei casi, sono del tutto false?
“Just the Facts, Ma’am”
The concept of Data Protection has evolved. It’s no longer sufficient to just provide backup – data protection solutions/services/platforms must now include features such as data security, analytics/insights, governance, compliance, data management, data mobility/migration, transformation, and of course, recovery. Many less capable vendors have been forced to approach this via acquisition partnerships/OEM, or via other more fragmented approaches with multiple tools.
Commvault è diversa.
There is an extensive list of achievements in the data protection space pioneered by us as the first to deliver on them – and in some instances, still the only vendor to do so. Consider the following:
- First to launch fully managed DPaaS offering supporting multiple clouds (Metallic®).
- First to launch cloud air-gapping (Metallic® Recovery Reserve™).
- Prima soluzione di protezione dei dati aziendali a supportare container e Kubernetes (2017).
- L’unico fornitore a supportare numerose applicazioni cloud-native (AuroraDB, CosmosDB, OCI e altre) che altri fornitori non sono in grado di proteggere.
- L’unico fornitore a supportare la protezione di tutti i database PaaS di Azure.
Being #1 Means Cloud Security is Built-In–Not Bolted On
Many vendors overplay their support for immutability (either directly or via third parties) as sufficient data security, but if you don’t know you even have corrupted data, how can you truly be “protected”?
Immutability is table stakes, but it’s not enough. Without air-gapping, detection, and other layers of data security you end up with ransomware-infected immutable files. You need more than just immutability as part of your solution – things like:
- Metallic® ThreatWiseTM cyber deception and early warning solution.
- Supporto per l’air gapping, compreso l’utilizzo di nastri.
- Granular “clean” recovery, ensuring ONLY the bad data is “purged,” but the good data is still available.
- Non sono necessari strumenti aggiuntivi né supporto di terze parti.
- Estensione cloud per garantire l’immutabilità senza bisogno di Appliance.
- No need to LOCK the entire backup copy when corrupted data is found – which means that good data is getting thrown out with the bad, which equals data loss.
Being #1 Means Reducing TCO (or “Show me the money”)
Finally, let’s cut through the marketecture and jargon/rhetoric around TCO used by some vendors to lay claim to that #1 positioning. Today, TCO is a close second to security in terms of what you need. So, while saying things like “1.1M average cost savings” is (again) highly subjective depending on your company size, consider what real TCO looks like in any given situation:
- Il vero SaaS implica l’assenza totale di infrastrutture da gestire; un piano di controllo nel cloud non equivale a SaaS.
- La deduplicazione consente di risparmiare sui costi di ingresso/uscita dei dati.
- La compressione comporta una minore mobilità dei dati e maggiori risparmi.
- La possibilità di scalare la soluzione sia verso l’alto che verso il basso a seconda delle esigenze – non solo di scalare verso l’alto se la domanda si riduce o i carichi di lavoro si spostano su altri cloud o piattaforme.
Essere al primo posto significa integrare le funzionalità cloud native
The cloud offers data resilience, which is important to ensure that your data and applications are always available, but does not protect you from data corruption, malware, or other related incidents – you end up with highly resilient “bad data.” Data protection is critical for cloud native and SaaS-based applications.
And because being able to protect any application is the name of the data protection game, how does one claim to be #1 in modern data protection without that? Commvault offers best-in-class data protection for traditional, hybrid, cloud, modern, and containerized applications as part of a unified service and console – eliminating the need for multiple, overlapping tools. Offering the broadest spectrum of workload coverage in the industry, Commvault drives “hard cost savings for Microsoft customers” according to ESG. E ilGartner Magic Quadrant™? Leader per gli ultimi 11 anni consecutivi. Aggiungete a ciò lo status di leader nell’ultimorapporto GigaOm Radar sulla protezione dei dati nel cloud ibrido, and you know you’re in good hands.
Wrapping up, we’re not here to debate our position on the data protection leaderboard, although we do think our case for sitting at the top is strong. The way our 100,000+ customers see it, with over 3.8EB having been moved to the cloud, Commvault is the global leader in hybrid cloud data protection. We’ve been doing this for 26 years, nearly all of it with our foundational partner Microsoft.
The TL; DR? Ask your vendor if your data is being secured, defended, and recovered with 100% efficiency, for the right workloads, in the right places, by the right vendor – both now AND in the future. You might be surprised by what you find.
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Riferimento
. Rapporto “State of the Cloud”, Flexera, 2022
