
VMware Case Study: Educational InstitutionConsumer Products
This case study of a educational institution is based on a September 2013 survey of VMware vSphere Data Protection solutions customers by TechValidate, a 3rd-party research service. The profiled organization asked to have their name blinded to protect their confidentiality.
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This company was looking for a reliable solution to backup critical data. Hence, the rated the following factors in terms of importance when selecting a data back-up and recovery product:
- ease of management and use: extremely important
- storage efficiency: extremely important
- solution cost: extremely important
- single vendor backup solution: extremely important
- application awareness/consistency: very important
- object-level recovery: somewhat important
vSphere Data Protection is a big improvement over other backup products. It provides us with a nice buffer to be able to roll a machine back when an administrator didn’t think of the ramifications of a change they made. It provides us with an excellent backup capability that is easy to use at a reasonable cost.
“It is very important that our backup and recovery solution be well integrated with our VMware infrastructure.”
Results
The following factors were rated as the top reasons why they purchased vSphere Data Protection over the competition:
- Cost effectiveness
- Ease of use
- Seamless integration with vSphere
- Data de-duplication and storage efficiency
- VMware solution and support