Bocada Hosts ESG Webinar on Challenges of Effectively Managing Backups in Virtual Environments

KIRKLAND, Wash., Nov. 22, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Bocada Inc., the world's leading provider of data protection management software and the creator of the Data Protection Service Management (DPSM) model, today announced that it is hosting a one-hour interactive webinar with Enterprise Strategy Group's Senior Analyst Lauren Whitehouse to discuss recent research results that reveal key data protection challenges and hidden costs organizations face when trying to protect virtual environments on November 30 at noon EST.

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"The Hidden Costs of Protecting Virtual Environments" features Whitehouse and Bocada CEO Nancy Hurley revealing recent research results that indicate how organizations are protecting virtual servers today and future trends; the top challenges users face managing snapshots and backups; and how protecting virtual machines can increase administrative and capital costs and how those can be reduced. 

"We recently surveyed IT professionals as to the issues they face in protecting business-critical data and found that a significant number of them find that backup and recovery processes for virtual servers is among their top data protection challenges," said Whitehouse.  "This webinar seeks to inform attendees about the hidden costs and concerns faced by many organizations to show that they are not alone in the challenge of effectively managing backups within virtual environments as well as highlight solutions that will help them successfully overcome these challenges."

In addition to discussing the survey results, Bocada Product Marketing Manager Ralph Wynn will be showing Bocada Vision, the market's first Data Protection Service Management solution providing in-depth analysis of data protection activity in virtual environments.  The demonstration of Bocada Vision will show users how they can quickly and easily assess the recoverability of VMs, gain immediate visibility into VM data protection results, track VM backup and snapshot capacity analysis and view the performance impact of backups.

"As companies continue their march into adoption of virtualized environments, they find new challenges meeting them in regards to how they backup and restore their data compared to their tried-and-true physical infrastructures," said Wynn.  "By showing that there is a way to effectively manage data protection of virtual machines through in-depth reporting of their entire data protection landscape, IT managers will have a better understanding as to how to quickly and easily rectify any issues they face."

Bocada Vision is available as a standalone module within Bocada Prism, a service management application that was purpose built to help organizations move through the DPSM model, a multi-phase set of best practices to ensure cost-effective delivery of data protection services to customers. Bocada leveraged years of customer experiences to create a workflow-driven, intelligent analysis solution with built in SLA impact analysis, change tracking, trend analysis and a searchable knowledge base to ensure organizations can meet business goals and improve operational efficiencies. When used over an extended period of time, Prism provides a historical overview of the backup environment to see if it is operating the way it should be. This information is vital in addressing whether changes need to be made, the architecture needs updating, and what data is readily available, as well as to forecast future growth.   

To register for the free webinar, interested parties may visit http://www.bocada.com/invites/vision-esg-webinar.

About Bocada

Bocada is a VMware Elite Partner, providing market leading data protection service management solutions to transform the way companies deliver data protection services to achieve greater business and IT alignment, maximize operational efficiency, minimize risk and increase customer satisfaction. Based on patented, agent-less technology, Bocada solutions deploy rapidly and scale to meet the demands of the largest multi-vendor data protection environments. Picking up where other backup software companies stop, Bocada software monitors and creates in-depth reports for transparency and accountability and empowers users to address any failures in their data protection process. Hundreds of enterprise organizations more effectively manage over 600,000 backup clients and servers with Bocada solutions. Headquartered in Kirkland, Washington, Bocada is privately held and funded by leading venture investors. For more information visit: www.bocada.com.

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