After BakBone is classified as Dell

After Dell's acquisition of storage hardware vendors, equallogic and compellent, the sales of the two products increased exponentially in a short period of time, creating a miracle of growth. After Dell acquired the data protection software vendor BakBone, people were eager to know whether BakBone's business could reach a new level.

With data backup as the core, the trend of Data Protection integration is becoming increasingly apparent. On the one hand, the data protection solution integrates more software functions, including backup, recovery, archiving, search, and management. On the other hand, the data protection solution is more embodied in the integration of software and hardware. This is because with the rise of cloud computing, big data, and mobile technology, users' application systems are more complex and physical, virtual, and cloud environments coexist. Enterprise Users need a comprehensive, powerful, and easy-to-use data protection solution.

Recently, Dell released the latest NetVault backup software and dr6000 deduplication device. With NetVault backup, the performance of dr6000 becomes more powerful, which is the best example of software and hardware integration. In the past few years, Dell has acquired a series of data protection software vendors, making it more autonomous and easy to provide comprehensive data protection solutions.

　Makeup for mergers and acquisitions

In the field of data protection, providing overall solutions has always been Dell's goal and one of its advantages. However, before the acquisition of a series of storage software vendors, in the solutions provided by Dell, apart from their own hardware, the software mainly relies on the power of partners, including Symantec and commvault.

In the process of strengthening the overall enterprise-level solutions, Dell relied on frequent acquisitions to make up for its shortcomings in software, which was particularly prominent in data protection.

According to incomplete statistics, in the past few years, the Dell software department has acquired 18 companies, including appassure, quest, ocarina, vizioncore, and SonicWall related to data protection. Appassure and BakBone provide backup software, while ocarina provides deduplication technology. These products are gradually integrated into Dell's end-to-end data protection solutions.

NetVault backup 10 is Dell's latest backup software after acquiring quest software. In fact, NetVault backup was the first core product of BakBone, a backup software vendor. Quest acquired BakBone, and Dell acquired quest, so NetVault backup became Dell's core backup software. After such twists and turns, dell now has a relatively complete product line in terms of data protection software, covering all kinds of data protection needs from small and medium enterprises to large enterprises.

When BakBone and Veritas (subsequently acquired by Symantec), legato (subsequently acquired by EMC), and CA were the primary backup software vendors when they existed as independent companies. When the acquisition of several other backup software vendors has developed faster, BakBone remains independent for a long time, however, its brand awareness and product market share are no longer comparable to Symantec and EMC.

After Dell's acquisition of storage hardware vendors, equallogic and compellent, the sales of the two products increased exponentially in a short period of time, creating a miracle of growth.

After Dell acquired BakBone, people were eager to know whether BakBone's business could take a new step. Cao xinkang, former BakBone business manager in China, is now the sales director of Dell Software Data Protection Department greater China. He has the most say in changes before and after BakBone's acquisition.

"BakBone has always had great products, but it is also a small brand. After the merger of BakBone and Dell, Dell has injected new vigor into the development of BakBone. In terms of market coverage, brand awareness, and R & D resource investment, Dell has provided great support and help to BakBone ." "Today, BakBone's business is growing very fast," said Cao xinkang. On Dell, a very powerful sales platform, BakBone's business has been changed and will develop more in the future ."

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　Changes as needed

In the data backup field, BakBone is already an "old" Company. The basic architecture of BakBone's flagship product NetVault backup was designed based on the needs of users many years ago. In today's increasingly popular cloud computing and big data, can NetVault backup meet customers' needs? Commvault, another well-known software vendor in the field of data protection and management, was able to stop old product lines and redesign the infrastructure as needed, only by virtue of its unique integrated architecture has emerged in the field of data protection. What changes will NetVault backup make to meet the data protection requirements of today's users?

"We must pay attention to and keep up with market changes ." Jacob Pereira, Asia Pacific and Japanese marketing director of Dell software division, further explained, "We are constantly adjusting ourselves like our competitors to adapt to changes in market and customer needs. When there is a new technical trend, we will add corresponding features for our products. Taking virtualization support as an example, in the past one or two years, NetVault backup has continuously strengthened its support for VMware virtualization software. In terms of cloud computing, we will also add new functional modules for NetVault backup. We will add more new features to NetVault backup ."

According to Dell, the availability, performance, and scalability of NetVault backup10. Specifically, NetVault backup10 provides a new web-based graphical user interface with a more intuitive workflow, allowing administrators to easily configure, manage, and monitor the NetVault backup system. In addition, NetVault backup10 adopts a brand new back-end database and optimizes the scheduler and Media Manager algorithms, significantly improving the backup system's response capabilities, management personnel can complete the backup and recovery tasks in less time.

"NetVault backup has been actively changing ." Li guanglu, Senior Technical Manager of Dell Software Data Protection Department Greater China, gave an example: "NetVault backup allows the backup of vmwarevm to be faster, while reducing the backup data volume by 1/3. In addition, the perfect combination of NetVault backup and Dr devices not only enables source deduplication, but also remote replication after data deduplication. We have adjusted the backend database of NetVault backup10 to change the built-in database to an open one, thus laying a good foundation for performance improvement and database upgrading ."

In addition to NetVault backup, Dell also has other software, such as appassure and vranger, that can complement NetVault backup to meet diversified user needs. "Some customers want to recover 1 TB of data within one minute. Some customers want to back up data to the cloud. Although some users cannot fully meet the requirements of NetVault backup, we can use other products and solutions to supplement it. For example, appassure can quickly back up data to a disk and delete duplicate data. NetVault backup can then store the data backed up to the disk in the tape. We can combine multiple software to meet the needs of different users ." Li guanglu said.

　　One more choice

Dell now has complete software products and solutions, including data centers and cloud computing, database management, mobile office management, security and data protection. "NetVault backup can be used for data backup, SonicWall is responsible for security, and Iam can complete identity authentication. Dell can provide corresponding solutions for every user's needs ." "Our end-to-end data protection solution allows users to quickly complete backup and recovery anywhere and anytime," Jacob Pereira said ."

The next step of data protection is to effectively manage the retained data and the customer's demand for data management is also growing.

Dell can also provide some data analysis and database management software, such as database development and management software toad, and shareplex. "In terms of data management, Dell will not integrate for integration. If it does that, it will force customers to upgrade their hardware. This is not Dell's strategy. Our goal is to provide customers with more choices ." Jacob Pereira.

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