ESG – Lab Validation Report

ESG Lab Validation Report

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“Constantly growing data volumes put pressure on data protection systems, processes, and budgets. In fact, IT managers surveyed by ESG reported that one of their top two goals for 2011-12 was to find ways to better manage data growth. Massively growing data volumes and shrinking backup windows make data protection difficult; a solution that reduces the cost of network bandwidth and disk capacity is a compelling alternative to traditional backup and recovery software.

ESG Lab confirmed Actifio PAS’s ability to efficiently reduce capacity and bandwidth requirements for both local and remote copy data. Using a 50 GB data set with 40% annual growth for a one-year retention period, ESG Lab compared Actifio to a traditional disk-to-tape backup scenario. ESG Lab observed a savings of 29 times (2900%) in capacity, and a 95% savings outcome in network bandwidth with Actifio when compared to the traditional approach.”